Template talk:CUR-CHICOTW

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[edit] In main space

I wonder why this template keeps showing up the main space. It is clearly a talk page template for use by a limited group of editors and of no use to readers. I don't by the underconstruction nonsense, anyone who edits those articles are usually involved with collaboration. It seems useless in main space. Is this the intended function of this template? To exist in main space? IvoShandor 13:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Every week a new article shows up in mainspace for one week with this COTW tag. Its purpose in the main space, as with any other type of underconstruction notice, is as a notice to the reader that the resource is in a highly dynamic state and much less reliable as a result because it is expected to make a very different statement in the immediate near future. Since in general we choose less visible articles, a high proportion of people seeing the template may be editors. However, this does not lessen the propriety of warning the reader. See the note that usually accompanies this tag in the source code of the main space pages and also see the discussion section at WP:CHICAGO for a pertinent discussion, which I thought you had taken part in.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 14:02, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I have no problem with this template, but it simply does not belong on top of articles. It belongs on top of the talk page just like every other WikiProject Template. It's really unfair to all the other WikiProjects for you to do this. If this is an under construction template than why on earth does it say "Please note our good articles"? Why does it have

Chicago Collaboration of the Week

in big bold letters, and the actual bit in construction at an 85 percent font? Please, there's a guideline called WP:ASR and Chicago seems to be the only WikiProject that refuses to follow it. Please stop, please just put the template on the talk page like everyone else. There's collaborative projects that do much more substantive overhauls than CHICOTW. Please, out of respect for these projects, just follow the same guidelines as everyone else on the entire wiki. --JayHenry 02:49, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I think my comment above may sound more harsh than I actually mean it. I should have started by saying that all of you guys at WP:WPChi do a really good job of building new and interesting articles every week for DYK and improving articles in other places too. I really admire the energy and quality of your work as a project and Tony's tireless efforts coordinating all of it. So although I'd prefer to see the template on talk, the most important part of all of this is the good encyclopedia building you do, and I'm sorry I didn't mention that in my comment above. Whatever decision is reached about this template, I want all you Chicagoans to know how much I respect all the hard work you are doing! --JayHenry 03:29, 15 August 2007 (UTC)