[WikiEN-l] dueling templates

[David Goodman]

The exact wording of that template is under discussion there also--one
of the original supporters of it changed his mind upon finding it had
been modified to better reflect the actual policy, not the
hyper-deletionist policy he thought should be the case.

On 9/6/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem isn't with the template itself, but the way it's used.
> > Somebody (possibly a script or bot) will add the template wherever
> > they see ==Trivia==, and then somebody else (possibly another script
> > or bot) will patrol the relevant category and blank the section,
> > without any attention as to whether the content is related to that of
> > other sections, or properly referenced, or outright remarkable.
>
> If people/bots are doing that, they should be stopped. Last time I
> read the appropriate policy it said to integrate trivia into the rest
> of the article, not remove it.
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.