[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[Todd Allen]

Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 6/29/07 8:40 PM, Garion96 at garion96 at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Talk pages have indeed been taken over by templates, every time a new
>> wikiproject tag is being added. Sometimes I think it would be handy to have
>> a third page with articles. The article page, discussion page, and template
>> page. That way when you go to a discussion page you have a good change that
>> the article is actually being discussed.
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> I like this idea. As the number of Projects grows, so will the number of
> templates. This would free up the Discussion Pages for just what their name
> describes: Discussion.
>
> Marc Riddell
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Now I love this idea. It's very frustrating to go to a talk page to
participate in the discussion how to improve it, only to find that the
"discussion" consists of a bunch of bot-placed (or effectively
bot-placed) templates.