[Wikipedia-l] "Drive-by tagging" advice needed

[David Gerard]

On 30/08/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to hear any comments you all may have on this topic. Is it OK
> to simply remove vague tags if the article in question does not appear to
> have a problem related to the tag and there is no comment? I ask because, as
> I noted, the last time I removed tags the tagger then stamped the article
> with a PROD, their argument being that removing tags is PRODable.


It's possible you're dealing with a procedure-bound idiot. Delete the
tags saying "see talk page" and ask on the talk page why not.
Procedure then says discuss it there.


- d.