Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Don't encourage templating/reply (4)

In an ideal world, we'd move from the "tagging an article using a template" system to "tagging an article using stored metadata tags" system, which we could make friendlier and less obtrusive.

I suspect that a lot of problems arise for new users who take "improvement templates" personally - like they are critiques upon their writing or whatever. Which they are - just not "hostile" critiques. As it were.

I'd like to introduce a system of "welcoming and appreciation" alongside of "tagging for improvement." There's another thread (started by User:Eloquence that goes into this more, and I want to modify the design to include it (though I haven't had any good time spent in The Cave to do so lately).