Hmmmn... I guess this is a matter of personal taste. I find a .example file right next to the one I'm editing SO useful.
For fun, cd /etc, for i in ... cp $i ${i}.example. {shudder}
They come in handy in some cases, but they'd come in just as handy in /usr/share/doc and they'd create far less /etc/ clutter.
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