Neil Harris wrote:
The presence of tags on articles is a _major_ clue for readers about the state of the article, and helps readers become editors. If we are going to fence off readers from editors, we might as well give up on the whole wiki idea.
That doesn't follow. It is one possible outcome with a small number of readers. But many, if not more, who came here looking for information they didn't get elsewhere, will read it as a "_major_ clue" that the article is not reliable, and that they should look elsewhere for the information. Unless they have the habit of writing fixing things in a site is not a natural reaction. Putting pointless tags is far more natural.
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