2008/8/2 SPUI drspui@gmail.com:
Charlotte Webb wrote:
There is a discussion on WP:AN about this [1] which has incidentally spilled over onto my talk page. No I'm not canvassing or asking anybody to comment there, but I'd just like some personal feedback, so I can at least figure out whether I've gone completely nuts or if the concerns I've raised have some degree of merit.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AN#Talkpage_deletion_question
Sorry, it's rejected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_WikiProject_talk_page_tem...
The current objection seems to be only ones with {{talkheader}}, which is indeed pretty useless - the link is objecting to project templates, which is subtly different.
Project banners *are* meaningful - they do serve a useful logistical function, in that they're infrastructure that can let us keep tabs on article quality (and suchlike metadata) without interfering with the article itself. Without them, we'd be hard pressed to come up with this wealth of data:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index
These "rich metadata" templates cover some 70% of our articles, and mean that over 55% of the encyclopedia has some kind of explicit quality assessment. I'd say this is more than worth the occasional annoyance of "oh, no discussion after all".