[WikiEN-l] Problem with {{contradicting}}

[Gurch]

Actually it already has one, though for some reason whoever implemented
decided it to make it a named parameter.

{{contradict|about=the colour of the sky}} will work.

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Timwi wrote:
>> I think the {{contradicting}} template is problematic because it 
>> doesn't require the user to specify what the supposed contradiction 
>> is. Some people seem to add it as if it was an intrinsic property of 
>> the subject, rather than a request to fix something. When I removed it 
>> with the comment "Please don't add the contradiction tag without 
>> giving your reasons on the Talk page, otherwise I won't know what to 
>> fix in the article", it was simply added back in with the edit summary 
>> "who keeps removing that template?".
>>   
>Just add a parameter with an appropriately snarky default...

>Stan

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