[WikiEN-l] New Test Templates

[Phil Sandifer]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

> Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
>> Rory Stolzenberg schreef:
>>> On 1/22/07, Myles Gray <MylesGray_33 at msn.com> wrote:
>>>> Will someone please explain to me why the new test templates  
>>>> have a number
>>>> one in front of it?
>>> See
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? 
>>> title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_on_user_warning_layout_standardisation&o 
>>> ldid=92676384
>>
>> Right. So it is to make these templates more useful for book- 
>> keeping, and
>> to make them look less like personal communication.
>>
>
> Of course, in the Good Old Days, they were SUPPOSED to look like
> personal communication, for those of us too lazy to write custom
> messages each time...

Yes, well, this was before we decided that vandalism was an epic  
problem that required a special task force to deal with it.

Which is another entry on the growing list of "problems that have  
been left to fester long enough on Wikipedia that they're going to  
require drastic solutions.

-Phil