On 30 October 2011 08:06, Oliver Keyes <scire.fac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Surely making it only available to those users who understand markup
> completely undermines one of the great unintended consequences - that it's
> really useful for posting talkpage messages? New users can use those
> templates in a *perfectly* meaningful way - as a way of communicating
> instead of relying some pseudo-HTML markup language they're too new to
> understand. They could communicate...ohh, I don't know, just off the top of
> my head....maybe "can someone please explain to me how markup works?"


Zee logical attack line would be to make one of the wikilove options
(probably the first one) a simple "a message for you" rather than "a
kitten for you" or "an ironclad battleship for you" or whatever the
options are.


-- 
geni

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