[Wikipedia-l] Metacomments

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- Khendon <jason at jasonandali.org.uk> wrote:
> I'd like to know exactly what the consensus is on
> "metacomments" within
> an article text - "More should be written here",
> "See WikiProject Foo
> for help with editing this page", "Is this
> correct?", and so on.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that things like this should
> almost always
> be in the Talk page. Having them in the article
> looks tacky and
> unprofessional. Only things that directly affect
> "customers"
> should be in the article, I'd say.

There's no specific consensus on such meta-comments
(however, you'll have to ask the WikiProject folks
about the "See WikiProject" ones).

In Wikipedia's early days, it was quite common to add
such comments. It now seems to be frowned upon as more
and more people use Wikipedia articles as references.
I usually move them to the talk page.

Stephen G.

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