[WikiEN-l] Visual suggestion; Straw Poll

[Timwi]

Hi,

I just want to gather some opinions on this. Please don't be afraid of 
telling me that you strongly disagree, but also don't hesitate to voice 
support of this idea ;-)

Basically, I thought that messages like "This is listed on VfD" or "The 
neutrality of this article is disputed" or "This is a stub", etc. -- 
i.e. messages that are really supposed to be temporary -- could really 
be a little bit more visually apparent. Especially with stubs, as the 
message is supposed to encourage their expansion :)

So I was bold and made a little change to [[MediaWiki:Vfd]] (this edit 
is actually by Eloquence, thanks for the improvement to the colours):

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:Vfd&oldid=2682561

It is quite obvious that before we had the {{msg:}} feature, it was 
necessary to have just a short text that we could copy & paste, but now 
that we have {{msg:}}, something like this is really quite easy to do. I 
can understand that some people have gotten used to the old looks of it, 
but maybe some of you will be able to look past that for a second ;-)

So, uhm, please let me know what you think!

Timwi