On 2/27/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Another thought on this topic.
What if we replaced all of our problem tags with something generic - {{notverygood}} or something. I'm thinking wording along the lines of:
"This article isn't very good yet. If you came here to learn about this topic, we apologize that we aren't able to help you as well as we'd like. If you know a bit about this topic already, please feel free to help to fix it. Some concerns people have are probably located on the talk page."
And then the mass of other stuff - {{npov}}, {{unverified}}, {{notability}}, etc could all move to the talk page. This puts a reader-friendly face forward, while retaining the information about what's wrong for editors.
-Phil
I suggested this about a year ago. The main problem is that non specific warnings are not very useful. Thus things like {{NPOV}} {{hoax}} really do need to be at the top of the article.
Things like {{notability}} whatever the tags are for cats needed and total lack of citations tags can go on the talk page but ah it didn't catch on last time so I assume there is some oposition somewhere or that people don't really care about the problem.