On 31/10/06, Larry Sanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have always found editor-oriented tags on Wikipedia articles annoying, > such as the "cleanup" tag and the "disputed neutrality" tag. They don't > help the reader much, I think; they clutter the page and most of what they > can be said is said with a catch-all disclaimer at the top of all unapproved > CZ articles: > But I could be convinced otherwise. What do you think?
A lot of the template messages on Wikipedia, I find useful as reader warnings that something is up with this article and to read somewhat more critically. Wikipedia isn't perfect and doesn't claim to be, and this is part of letting the reader know it isn't. (A lot of the reliability problems are IMO people presuming much greater reliability of Wikipedia than it in fact claims.) As for their use on Citizendium, presumably the point of Citizendium - quality control - is that no article is going to go to general release without someone saying it doesn't need such tags. So perhaps they would be useful on articles imported from Wikipedia. Or be a reason not to import that article version from Wikipedia. - d. _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
