User talk:Renmiri/YouCleanThisUp

Bad reviews on book cover ?
This is an attempt at humor to protest something that I believe is making Wikipedia look bad to readers. Click the Random Article link 10 times and I guarantee you will find more than 1 page with cleanup tags on it - on the main page - not on talk page. Which means over 10% of Wikipedia's pages have us editors telling the reader that the article is not good enough. Is it any wonder people say Wikipedia is not reliable ? How can people not think that if we ourselves tell any reader that it isn't ? The sad part is that articles are reliable and those tags are only "shop talk" aimed at improving it that need not deface the article. You know, on printed books the publisher puts the good reviews on the cover and leaves the bad reviews out of it. Or at least on a tiny footnote that any reader won't see! Seriously, tagged articles look awful!!! It's like putting "under construction" on a large portion of the site. I propose 1) moving those shop talk tags to the article talk page, and 2) more moderation on their use. Renmiri (talk) 05:44, 19 March 2009 (UTC)