These cleanup templates are all listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup
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-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 6:32 PM To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Template madness
Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kryon&oldid=9939921
How many different ways do we need to express that an article should be edited? When did Wikipedia become about editing pages to tell others how to edit pages?
I would support either radically cutting down the number of these templates, or limiting their use by policy to two total top-level boxes per page. Templates would be ordered by priority, so something ridiculous like "POV check" wouldn't have a chance if there are two important templates on the page already.
More controversially, I would even say that there's no point in an article being on Cleanup and VfD at the same time. Both are instruments of exposure, it's enough to use one of them and hope people fix the article because they see it there. Otherwise people will just keep adding Cleanup to any article on VfD out of fear that it will otherwise not get fixed before being deleted.
Regards,
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