Forum:CT Archive/"In Use" tag timeframe

The issue
I'd like to address an issue with the tag. Besides the "catch phrase", the first line of the template states This article is actively undergoing a major edit. Yet this tag gets placed in articles that subsequently get left untouched for half a day up to days and even weeks (example). Then when another use makes and edit to the page after it has sat untouched for an extended period of time, they get slammed for it. I think there should be more specific guidelines as to the time frame that tag can remain in place.

Suggestions/comments

 * Since the tag states actively undergoing... the tag should become void if left in place when the article is no longer being actively edited. And that's even if a person is working on it at home, then goes to work for 8 hours where they are unable to actively work on it, and planning to continue work on it at home. They should remove the tag for that time they are away from home.

8 hours

 * 1) JMAS 18:12, 15 January 2008 (UTC)