On 6/29/07, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
The Cunctator schreef:
On 6/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote: and that a word with a spelling error is marked
"spelled wrong".
Fix spelling errors. THIS IS A WIKI. Are you seriously advocating that a spelling error should be marked with a footnote *instead* of being fixed?
I'm sorry, no, I think I was a bit too sarcastic.
One reason these tags may be necessary is because talk page don't work as good for these issues as a few years ago.
It used to be that if you saw a problem with an article that you couldn't immediately solve yourself, you'd leave a message on the talk page: "Look at that sentence, it doesn't sound right, does anyone have an idea how to improve it?"
It used to be that only a small fraction of our articles had talk pages. If I came across an article with a blue link to the talk page, I always took a look; sometimes there was an interesting didcussion, sometimes just a cleanup notice.
I warned them, but they didn't listen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_WikiProject_talk_page_tem...
Some folks did listen, now the templates can be closed, and must be clicked on to open all of them--this means that folks can see that it is a talk page.
It's a good point about the project banners. Maybe there should be a project banner page in addition to a talk page.
KP