On 6/30/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
From: Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:12:17 -0400
on 6/29/07 8:40 PM, Garion96 at garion96@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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
Run now to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ludwig_van_Beethoven ! Blink and you'll miss it! Excessive templating!
Evidently Beethoven is a Deaf icon. Learn something new every day.
Moreschi
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Who wouldn't claim Beethoven if they could? I only put plants tags on botanist and plant articles--but putting them there is good, because there are two editors who go through and clean up technical aspects of these articles and a handful of others who copyedit articles that have been recently tagged with WP Plants, so the tags serve a pupose--but, yes, a dedicated templates page would be good.
KP