Wikipedia:Template madness

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This page in a nutshell: Tagging pages for problems can be helpful, as long as it is done in moderation.

Template madness refers to a phenomenon whereby the use of templates on a page becomes excessive and thus counterproductive to the page's usefulness.^{[citation needed]}

On the other hand, more moderate and appropriate use of attention boxes alerts unwary readers about potentially bad information and may help the underlying problems get resolved faster.^{[not in body]}