User:Froth/test1

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Since the question annotation idea is only for the science desk, I implemented some wiki logic to make that text only appear on the science desk. On the other desks, a blurb about the new template appears. As per this brief discussion, it also links to an extremely newbie-friendly talk subpage for "actual" user input into the problem. We need to know what non-regulars think about the issue, and this coupled with the possible popularity of the strict tag could give us an idea of where to go from here. This idea is a cousin to the new ref desk idea, but it is exclusive meaning that if this works out we shouldn't have to implement a new desk at all. Also in defense of this way of doing it, it's quite a bit cleaner and more inline than a whole separate desk.

The science desk header, the other headers, and the strict template are demoed here.

Please viciously edit my text. It's probably grammatically wrong in every way and politically incorrect for using the masculine pronoun, so help me out. Also each line seems a bit brief so do try to expand it. But if you disagree on content, reply here; don't just remove stuff.

I did try to skirt the issue of humor in describing strict. The actual template makes it clear not to be frivolous in responding but the focus here is really on professionalism and wikipedia standards as a whole, not just with humor.

Oh and for now I'd like it to stay a good-faith thing of actually trying to offer more professional responses to strict-tagged questions, instead of having to edit other peoples' posts. Editing of other users' posts is a somewhat different matter and still subject to argument, so argue on! This feels like a good step though.

This will not solve the debate about censorship. However it will provide the same feedback about users' feelings about the quality of the reference desk as would a new desk, without the radical change. And who knows, maybe this will make the question of censorship moot.

--⁪froth T C  04:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

This is another template available if anyone likes it more
strict2

Those templates add themselves to a category
This is the category: Category:Serious reference desk questions. If anyone thinks it's a bad idea to have multiple categorizations on the same page just remove this.