K P wrote:
On 6/30/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
From: Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net
on 6/29/07 8:40 PM, Garion96 at garion96@gmail.com wrote:
Talk pages have indeed been taken over by templates, every time a new wikiproject tag is being added. Sometimes I think it would be handy to have
a third page with articles. The article page, discussion page, and template
page. That way when you go to a discussion page you have a good change that
the article is actually being discussed.
I like this idea. As the number of Projects grows, so will the number of templates. This would free up the Discussion Pages for just what their name describes: Discussion.
Run now to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ludwig_van_Beethoven ! Blink and you'll miss it! Excessive templating!
Evidently Beethoven is a Deaf icon. Learn something new every day.
Who wouldn't claim Beethoven if they could? I only put plants tags on botanist and plant articles--but putting them there is good, because there are two editors who go through and clean up technical aspects of these articles and a handful of others who copyedit articles that have been recently tagged with WP Plants, so the tags serve a pupose--but, yes, a dedicated templates page would be good.
Very few of us have a potted Beethoven in our entrance hall, and having a tag on the plant reduces the number of times that we will need to answer the same boring question.
I would take the idea of a templates page a little further to include a wider range of metadata about the article. The bibliographic data that accompanies the frequent over-referencing of articles results in an almost uneditable thicket. The message to would-be editors is that the rules allow them to edit, but they are on their own in any attempt to wade through the markup to fix even the most egregious of mechanical errors.
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