[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[SPUI]

Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> The Cunctator schreef:
>> On 6/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
>> and that a word with a spelling error is marked
>>> "spelled wrong".
>> Fix spelling errors. THIS IS A WIKI. Are you seriously advocating that a
>> spelling error should be marked with a footnote *instead* of being fixed?
> 
> I'm sorry, no, I think I was a bit too sarcastic.
> 
> One reason these tags may be necessary is because talk page don't work
> as good for these issues as a few years ago.
> 
> It used to be that if you saw a problem with an article that you
> couldn't immediately solve yourself, you'd leave a message on the talk
> page: "Look at that sentence, it doesn't sound right, does anyone have
> an idea how to improve it?"
> 
> It used to be that only a small fraction of our articles had talk pages.
> If I came across an article with a blue link to the talk page, I always
> took a look; sometimes there was an interesting didcussion, sometimes
> just a cleanup notice.


I warned them, but they didn't listen. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_WikiProject_talk_page_templates