I also think it's a poor idea to list an article for cleanup - via any method - without explaining what you think is wrong with it. In fact, my biggest issue with the cleanup concept is that it encourages the 'someone else's problem' mentality, though it does help for when you feel like a little Wiki-tidying and need some pointers for problem areas.
-Matt
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:16:06 -0400, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Angela wrote:
I strongly feel these should only appear on talk pages, but I gave up arguing that a while ago because people insist on having them on articles, supposedly because they feel readers need to be warned the article is not good enough.
I think they ought to go on articles, but with a higher threshold of "suckiness". An article that needs a little work shouldn't go on cleanup, by my understanding of its intent. An article that was wholesale copy/pasted from a PD source with no wikification or rewriting should get the tag, as should an article that appears to be completely incoherent.
-Mark
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