Category talk:Pages needing expert attention

The reasons for and against the use of this template should be clearly stated. If a page is in "need of an expert", is it because of ..

• the need of an expert opinion in an encyclopedia where opinions are discouraged,
• incoherent content that needs to be represented in a way agreeable to experts in the field,
• the need to define the topic so as to set guidelines for further editing,
• accuracy dispute or similar (if so, why is the relevant template not used?) ..

..or why? Santtus 14:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The page doesn't mention if the tag should go at the top of the page or the bottom. I've seen both; I think the top is more appropriate. Шизомби 14:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Split

This category has grown large enough that it may be worth splitting. As someone who can claim some expertise in a few areas, I'd be willing to go through a list of articles in those areas and see if I can provide assistance. However it's pretty hard to find the ones in my areas of expertise from a huge list of every article in any field that needs expert attention. --Delirium 20:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I concur.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I concur as well. I came onto the talk page to make exactly that point. It gets exasperating searching for articles one can help on. Even just splitting them into 8 or 10 "big" categories would massively reduce the amount of searching. However, sorting through these old ones and categorising them would be a pain. Legis 13:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to split it too. I would like to help in some articles, but I won't go through the whole list to find one. Topics-related subcategories would be needed. NCurse _work 16:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Kay, folks. I very much concur. There's already a medicine related one. This task is pretty much similar to stub-sorting, yeah? I'm going to take a quick look at how the stubs are sorted and then I'll try and apply a similar method over here. I'm on it! --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 13:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• There's a project devoted to this! Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 13:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Is this tag being used appropriately

I looked at some items in this category and found some of them were also tagged with (or could be tagged with) {{sources}}. There is no way you can claim you need expert when the article is not even sourced! Actually sourcing the article will probably clear up most problems. I would like to suggest that a bot go through and remove the expert tag from all articles also tagged with {{sources}}. Then we can go through what is left and replace the expert tag with {{sources}} for any other articles lacking sources. If that is done I think the category will be more managable.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 18:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Certainly there are cases where we don't need to have the expert tag. In those cases, by all means remove it. I'd advise against making {{sources}} and {{expert}} mutually exclusive though, as occassionally there are sources needed, but the article also needs the eye of an expert. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 12:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)