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

[Akash Mehta]

Generally the best option is to just remove the tag, but to conform to
WP:BITE, if a clearly inexperienced user is trying to do their best by
tagging all the articles in the world, we give them a nudge with that
template. Of course, I've never seen anyone use it, its just there in
case its ever needed.

On 8/31/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  there is a template
> > you can use to tell people when wikification is not needed, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikify/wikified_wrongly
> > (its for [[WP:WWF]] members, but that doesn't mean you can't use it).
>
>
> That seems like extra procedure for no good reason. What on earth is
> wrong with just removing the {{wikify}} tag when it's not needed? It's
> a fairly subjective editorial judgement.
>
>
> - d.
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