Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Shortcuts to add common templates asking for improvement (proofreading templates)/reply (2)

It's not at all clear that having novice editors apply templates to articles is a good idea, let alone a high priority. For example, the documentation page for the citation needed template has a large section titled "When not to use this template"; novice editors can't be expected to read (or fully understand) all the documentation pages for all possible templates.

Which raises a more general issue: How many different templates could be applied when doing proofreading? If you take a look at this page, you'll see dozens and dozens of possible templates, and those are just for "cleanup". Do we really want to show all these templates to a novice, and expect him/her to understand which one to use? How would we do that in a compact way, since the full page is so lengthy?

Personally, I'd rather novice editors work on wording, and adding information, and adding citations. We already have plenty of templates in Wikipedia articles, in my opinion.