[WikiEN-l] Re: Poll on templates

[David Gerard]

Haukur Þorgeirsson (haukurth at hi.is) [050715 10:59]:

> > I'm appalled by the idea. The articles are part
> > of Wikipedia; a project's work should be *invisible*
> > except the results themselves.
 
> As I said I don't care as strongly about placement
> of the WikiProject tags as the other metadata tags
> under consideration.
> I'd like to note that one of the things that
> initially pulled me into Wikipedia was the humble
> {{stub}} template.
> "... you can help Wikipedia by expanding it."
> I can? Really? Where do I sign up?!


:-)

The thing about templates like {{stub}}, {{NPOV}} and so on is that they
are temporary by their nature - they indicate a problem that needs fixing.
The problem is fixed and the tag goes away.

Project tags on an article would be permanent by nature. That's not so
good IMO.


- d.