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Wait a second, let me fix that...
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Okay, now let us get started.The goal of templates is to help the article and make things clear. But to make things clear, who will make the templates clear?You. That's right- you. The templates would not work unless someone messed with them.[sarcasm] Otherwise templates would look like this:
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Very, very boring. People just don't want to help articles with boring templates on it. So it's up to you to... jazz it up.
You also have to relate to the public.
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 | This fan who keeps ravingabout a living personneeds additionalcitations forverification. The reason given is:No reason :). Please help by addingreliable sources.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced orpoorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentiallylibelous. Find sources: "Mess with the templates" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR({{SUBST:Feburary 30}} {{SUBST:3089}}) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Or just make the templates not interpretable to save everyone the time to read it.
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So, why am I writing this? It's because one day I needed to use a template but I didn't know which template to use. An article had no references except for one secton. Since I didn't know which template to use, I just used the "no references" template. That wouldn't work, since there wasone reference. However, I messed with the template and it turned out better[sarcasm] than if I had just used "citation needed" a bunch of times!
Doesn't that look much better??[sarcasm]NO??Says the person who messed with templates intheir sandbox.Well... anyway. I wanted to pass this information on to all future Wikipedians. And the next time you see too many photos on a page:
 | This article-looking thingcontains too many images for its overall length. Please helpimprove this article by removingindiscriminate collections of images or by adjusting images that aresandwiching text in accordance with Wikipedia'sManual of Style.(although I still liked it[sarcasm]) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
