On 06/11/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
We shouldn't be templating ANYONE. It's a bureaucratic "go away."
Close generally it means "at the present time I don't believe non template communication would be sufficiently beneficial to the project to be worth doing"
(The usual response to pointing this out is "but I can't possibly keep up with the flood of responses otherwise." To which the response is "so don't.")
You can keep up but it doesn't help. I can type "hi did you take this pic?" nearly as fast as {{subst:nsd}} then copy ({{subst:di-no source-notice|1=Prithvi s.jpg}} ~~~~ onto the talk page. If you are faced with needing to convey the same information repeatedly you are going to standardise. "hi did you take this pic?" scores higher on the higher I'm a human treating you like a human treat me like one scale (welcome templates score rather low) than copyvio templates but it isn't massively polite.