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

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard 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.
>
Absolutely.  The person who adds the tag should provide detailed 
information about what needs to be wikified.  If he fails to do that it 
should be reason enough to remove the tag.

Ec