--- Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia will always be far superior if we always acknowledge our weaknesses in the most open way possible, not just because it inspires more contributions, but because it is a more intellectually honest way of presenting information. While others hide behind the voice of authority, we openly ask for help where we need it.
Avoiding self references except where needed is a valid goal becasue it makes our content easier to use for third parties. We must balance the needs of readers with recruitment and the needs of third party users. Using talk pages for all but the most important meta data is the way to go.
Posting things like ToDo lists in the article itself or adding instruction creep such as WikiProject tags hurts more than helps and makes our content less usable to third parties.
We have talk pages, let's use them.
-- mav
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