Wikipedia talk:Articles for improvement/Google Doodle task force

Google Doodle banner
Currently a Google Doodle banner is being used at the top of the articles for International Women's Day, Solar eclipse of March 9, 2016, and Clara Rockmore. I was looking for a discussion where the community approved of the use of the banner and couldn't find one. Was the use of this template discussed anywhere?

There are a number of drawbacks to the banner and we should consider whether it is a good idea to place it at the top of our most highly trafficked articles. Combined with clean up messages and global notices, this clutters the top of the article, making it harder for readers to access the content they want. Also, as Google Doodles tend to drive a lot of traffic to their articles, it often becomes necessary to lock them down and, what with edit conflicts being more likely, they are less than ideal for new editors. Also, if the article is already at featured status, encouraging people to edit it is not productive. gobonobo + c 23:11, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree, - came here to say exactly this. I don't think we need a template to clutter at the top of articles linked to from other other sources; templates are designed to be informative to the reader (e.g. for recent news events that may be changing, articles that may be biased, etc.) and we shouldn't place a banner on top of articles stating that an unrelated organization has decided to highlight that article for the day. I'm going to take the step of being bold and removing these from the current articles it's linked to until we can come to a consensus on this, especially given that the template does not add any information specifically relevant to those articles. 171.66.209.4 (talk) 00:45, 10 March 2016 (UTC)


 * p.s. turns out that two of those articles are semi-protected, so couldn't edit those... 171.66.209.4 (talk) 00:47, 10 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Just a note but the banner is currently being discussed for deletion at TFD. The discussion is found here. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 17:57, 20 May 2016 (UTC)