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If you have a building or a machine and have a list of items which require maintenance, but nobody is maintaining it, so that the list continues to grow, the result is that the building or machine deteriorates. What should be discussed is the maintenance of the system is carried out. The tags should concentrate whatever can be reasonably done. Otherwise, the tags have no positive effect. [[User:Afil|Afil]] 18:23, August 11, 2011 (UTC)
:Most of them were indeed added automatically, as part of the [[User:Phlox]] bot work that produced most of the county and district pages (and the "talk about" pages that we discussed more recently). You are probably not correct to say that nobody has done anything about them, but maybe you have in fact examined the history of every such page to see that nobody has added any more genealogical detail. I do not agree that the templates "show that nobody is looking at them". I agree that thousands of other articles could do with the addition of that template, and you're welcome to add it routinely. Pages (unlike working machinery) are not deteriorating by having nothing done to them. The presence of the template slightly increases the chance that somebody will improve the page. The site certainly needs lots more work done on it. We have had only about a thousand registered contributors to the site, and we want millions more. We are progressing slowly. A site that is in development will always show some inconsistencies, each of which can be taken as an invitation to improve the parts that are not so good. (The word "maintenance" is probably not the best word for our list of things that deserve improvement, but as we copied it from Wikipedia we may as well stick with it. Most readers don't even encounter the word; they just see things that need to be improved.) -- [[User:Robin Patterson|Robin Patterson]] ([[User talk:Robin Patterson|Talk]]) 02:22, January 3, 2012 (UTC)
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