On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 November 2011 11:10, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> safe and then move on". And then someone else, later, might fix the >> article during general editing without even looking at the tag, and >> not remove the tag, or might expect others to remove the tag (no, >> really, that is a common attitude among some people who prefer others >> to judge any remedial work they have done - you put the tag there, you >> should come back and assess whether it is still needed). > > There's also a widespread belief that "I shouldn't/can't remove them". > I regularly see emails in OTRS saying "I've fixed X page, but the tags > are still there, can you check it out"; I've seen it occasionally on > talkpages as well, though it's less common.
Thank-you for confirming from your OTRS experience that this is an actual problem. <snip> > Both beliefs are helped by the fact that a lot of people honestly > don't realise the lead section can be edited - they use section edit > links, and don't realise that editing the page is how you get at the > "zeroth section" of the article. If you don't see the template when > you edit, you're less likely to realise it's a template to be removed. > - and even if you know about templates, if you can't figure out how to > get to it, you're stuck! Interesting. Hadn't thought of that. > Working on the assumption that there are people who want to remove > templates but are having problems doing so, one solution here might be > to build on the (excellent) work that's been done with HotCat, and > implement a "remove this tag" link on the template itself. Click this, > you get a little line saying "are the problems still here?", click > yes, and it loads-and-saves the change in the same way that a HotCat > category change works. > > Thoughts? This would be one way to get our readers to do the triage > and cleanup for us... +1 In fact, +100. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
