On 8/2/08, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, it's rejected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_WikiProject_talk_page_tem...
Ah, so I'm not the only crazy one. I will have to bookmark this page.
Obviously the locus of this particular discussion was the {{talkheader}} template. I do have similar issues with the myriad of wiki-project templates, but I am willing to concede that the quality/assessment/whatever data might be genuinely useful to other users. I have something similar on my own talk page but it was entirely a drunken joke and completely unrelated to the current debate.
On the other hand, with the advent of hidden categories, many of these features could be migrated to article space, much like the Persondata template (using some CSS to make it invisible by default but viewable by those interested).
If the contents of the talkheader template are terribly important it should be part of an appropriate mediawiki interface page rather than something people manually and indiscriminately add to talk pages when they have nothing better to do.
—C.W.