[Wikipedia-l] Please use <!--HTML comments-->

[Tom Parmenter]

|From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com>
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|Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:12:57 -0600
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|>> The html comments are kind of cute, but the talk pages are a 
|>> better place for discussing the faults of articles.
|
|Talk pages are for comments /about the article/.  HTML comments
|in the source text are for comments /about the source text/ that
|don't relate to the article.  Most people aren't programmers, and
|so will have no concepts matching the latter; that's OK, they'll
|never use them.  But they are vital to those of us who /do/
|understand the difference, and their existence doesn't make the
|experience for non-techies any more difficult.
|

This seems to be a distinction without much of a difference.  Anyone
who edits the article will see the comments, and probably not know
what to do with them.  The only examples given so far have been
comments about the article itself.  If there need to be comments about
the coding, the talk pages can bear this extra burden.  

If the coding of the article is so complex as to require comments,
then A) it is too complicated, so that no one can edit it, or B) the
comment can just as well be on the talk page.  Comments such as these
are for real code, not Wikipedia articles.  

IMHO, Tom P. 

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