On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Ben Kovitzbkovitz@acm.org wrote:
attention to tags? I know it's 2009, and I know tags will never go away, but most tags still strike me as both anti-wiki and page clutter. If a page has a problem, fix it.
That attitude is "anti-wiki". I can diagnose far more problems than I have time, knowledge or inclination to fix. Fixing is better than tagging. Tagging is better than ignoring.
For example, if a factual claim is unsupported b.s., don't insert {{fact}}, just delete it on the spot.
If you *know* it's b.s.. Of course. Even if it's supported b.s.. But if it's just unsourced, and you don't know if it's true - that's exactly what fact is for.
And then again, it does seem like a mass posting of {{missing | safety information}} tags on drug pages would quickly set a lot of editors to digging up the missing information. It would get the attention of editors faster than starting a Project. Despite my objections, that might be the most effective way to go.
Sounds good to me. In my experience, to get action you need to indicate that just a little bit of information is missing. People who fill an empty page with some huge template structure to fill out are making too much work. But give a small task, and someone wants to knock it off.
Steve