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

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 31/08/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Yeah. Newbies who start being procedural obsessives are difficult to
> deal with in general. Put six tags on an article, obsessively check
> all PRODs you've ever placed and AFD *any* that someone just removes,
> etc., etc.
> 
> The interesting bits of life are the grey areas. Wikipedia is not a
> refuge from them. How to get this across to those who see the world
> entirely in black and white, and think of grey as a kind of defective
> stippling?
> 

Wait until Mediawiki 2.0, which will /finally/ have 40kV through the chair.

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