On 7/12/07, Mister Hand misterhand2000@gmail.com wrote:
If the purpose of WikiProjects is to scare off new editors by tagging the talk pages of articles, then I think they've succeeded admirably.
On 7/11/07, Giggy g1ggyman@gmail.com wrote:
Well, you see the occasional note about the future of WikiProjects being short because they just don't work...well, I see a fair few of these messages, as I do a good deal of project work. So what do others think of the future? Will WikiProjects still be around and kicking in...say...6 months?
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What's so scarey about talk page tags? I can't put myself in that mindset. They're annoying, and they can make finding the talk too hard, but they also are useful.
THe plants tags send the articles to a list where botanical editors can clean them up--this is useful.
Plants isn't stuff full of people who know their stuff, because there are simply very few botanists on Wikipedia. But the project is essential to the amount of articles and the quality of plant articles we are getting on Wikipedia. Unless you wanna edit all of plants yourself, or suggest some other way of focusing discussion on an issue when it needs more than one editor (there's no "watchlist every new plant article I might be interested in keystroke).
Projects serve a purpose, whether or not you're particularly irritated at one right now, and whether all function well or not.
KP