On 7/9/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.webhostingreport.net/blog/archives/2007/07/08/wikipediaorg-on-its...
It's from a search engine spammer, but the point stands. Templating is not only insulting to the regulars, it's insulting to all recipients.
How about some RFA opposes: "Too much templating, no conversation." That should get the goldfarmers off the templating kick.
- d.
It depends on the situation. If someone has uploaded a copyvio despite multiple warning notices I will throw {{subst:nsd}} at them if only becuase it is more polite than what I would write. If however it looks like someone just forgot to list themselves as a sorce or whatever it will generaly avoid a template if only because the responce rate is higher (perhaps because it makes people think genisock2 is a real person or whatever).
So templates do have their uses in some cases but are less use for regular communication.
Untill I see more detials of this case it is hard to say which applies.