The Cunctator schreef:
On 6/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote: and that a word with a spelling error is marked
"spelled wrong".
Fix spelling errors. THIS IS A WIKI. Are you seriously advocating that a spelling error should be marked with a footnote *instead* of being fixed?
I'm sorry, no, I think I was a bit too sarcastic.
One reason these tags may be necessary is because talk page don't work as good for these issues as a few years ago.
It used to be that if you saw a problem with an article that you couldn't immediately solve yourself, you'd leave a message on the talk page: "Look at that sentence, it doesn't sound right, does anyone have an idea how to improve it?"
It used to be that only a small fraction of our articles had talk pages. If I came across an article with a blue link to the talk page, I always took a look; sometimes there was an interesting didcussion, sometimes just a cleanup notice.
Nowadays, 90% of our articles have a talk page, and 80% of them are empty.[*]
Because the reader is not an idiot.
Eugene
[*] I've got the talk page header boxes and the wikiproject pages turned of in CSS as well. I wish that that would make red links of talk pages containing boxes only...