Template talk:Intro-tooshort

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This tag is incredibly annoying, and I wish people would simply leave messages on the talk page instead of using it. This isn't an issue where we need to "warn the reader of problems", like some other cleanup tags -- it's simply an editing issue when the article is less than perfect. -- phoebe/(talk) 19:18, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. It's a case of "the lead of this article isn't very good, so lets make it even worse with a big tag". violet/riga (t) 11:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

It's especially inappropriate for short / stub articles where (in my opinion) a one or two sentence lead is just right, not too short at all. In those cases the tag encourages people to add unstructured information to the lead when they really should be working on expanding the article. I left a comment on the Wikipedia talk:Lead section page because I think this may reflect an underlying flaw in the guideline.Wikidemo 14:42, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

This template was proposed for deletion on December 2, 2007. The result was keep, per WP:SNOW. SkierRMH (talk) 22:43, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

It would funnier if this template were called too$hort --nathanbeach 04:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep... but why is there no unity on Wikipedia? Every template tag has its own syntax. Unless you memorize or store a database of all of the templates you plan to use, usage of templates in general is a hassle. I usually resort to Google to help me find a template, because the organization of the template pages is... non-existent. A lot of templates use hyphens, some don't... and this one is just ridiculous. "tooshort" is not a word. {{intro-too-short}} might be nice, or perhaps {{introtooshort}} or {{introshort}}--Tkgd2007 (talk) 07:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)