Problem: Wikipedia articles need to be in categories, but sandboxes and other drafts should not appear in categories. 94 Wikipedias have a copy of Template:Uncategorized, a template that some editors add to new articles. This takes their time and often causes edit conflicts, as the article's author may be trying to add those categories just as the other editor is adding a warning message about the need to add categories.
Proposed solution: An article that is in the main namespace and that does not have any non-hidden categories (including categories added through an infobox or other template) should automatically display a message at the bottom of the page. The message should encourage people to add categories to the pages. It should be configurable per namespace and per wiki (e.g., the message appears on uncategorized articles at the Wikipedias, but on uncategorized Files at Commons, and nowhere at the Wikivoyages).
Who would benefit: RecentChanges and New Page Patrollers would have less work to do. Article creators would have fewer edit conflicts to resolve.
Problem: Special:Thanks can be used for people whose accounts with Global locks, which usually means that the account owner is dead or perma-banned. Users can't even log in to a globally locked account, so they won't get the notification (unless it allows automatic e-mail?).
Proposed solution: You can't thank a bot account, so perhaps the same rule should apply to globally locked accounts.
