On Tuesday 01 October 2002 06:59 am, Khendon wrote:
I'd like to know exactly what the consensus is on "metacomments" within an article text - "More should be written here", "See WikiProject Foo for help with editing this page", "Is this correct?", and so on.
I'm of the opinion that things like this should almost always be in the Talk page. Having them in the article looks tacky and unprofessional. Only things that directly affect "customers" should be in the article, I'd say.
I agree and have already stated my reasons why I think WikiProject tags in articles are a bad idea at; http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._States
I've also taken the liberty of moving each state, province and department WikiProject tag to their respective talk pages.
Now the only ones I know of that still exist in their articles are on about a thousand (at least) of the earlier US county articles imported by Ram-Man. However, Ram-Man already has this on his ToDo list if anybody would like to help. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ram-Man
Aside: Could somebody rerun the most active stats again? I'm sure Ram-Man has leap-froged a couple dozen other users since the numbers were last done.
Hell, in a few months, he might even pass me up (esp. if he switches to creating articles on each US city after he is done creating articles on each US county -- madness).
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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