[WikiEN-l] Re: Poll on templates

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Thu Jul 14 19:49:59 UTC 2005


Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Those messages are ugly and have no relevance to third party users of Wikipedia
>content. We also do not have a problem with attracting new editors as is so
>this is a solution in search of a problem. Best to keep things as clean as
>possible for the vast majority of our users - readers. 
>  
>
I agree with this---the less meta-pollution of the article space, the 
better.  When I'm editing Wikipedia articles, I generally think "how 
would this seem if it appeared in a printed version of Wikipedia?"  If 
the answer is "really out of place", then it shouldn't be there, IMO.

-Mark




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