On 31/08/2007, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
I like the fact that people (by one means or another) agreed on using the banner space for something other than the fund drive (there is already a permanent link in the interaction sidebox, no?). Then things is an interesting usage for that valuable bulletin space. But I don't think its the best usage. A better usage would be for mobjobs; fix-it tasks which would effectively serve double duty as reminders (or first time notices) of some basic process and policy, focusing on particular problems or aspects. These can be minor items that need lots of eyeballs to correct on a large scale. My favorite peeves are:
- the misuse of external links in the body of articles,
- improper hatnotes (WP:HAT - hey, my protologism is official terminology! ;)
- self refs in-body/outside-of-parenthesis. 'For more information,' etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads
Mind you, there was strong opposition to it when it showed up, at the notion that they would be generally deployed - rather than confined to people's user pages, placed there as the user chose. People seem to have an aversion to public service announcements in ad form, as well as advertising itself.
- d.