[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of userpages

Wed Feb 22 18:56:16 UTC 2006

Getting rid of user pages is like curing the disease by killing the patient.
Completely unnecessary.

Ryan

On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe <ben.lowe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not only would a number of users simply leave (the benefits and final
> ramifications of which I'm sure many people have many different opinions
> on), and not only would it generate bad press from the snickering
> Wikipedia
> Defeatists ("looks like Wikipedia can't allow everyone to edit it after
> all!"  You know that'd start showing up), but the remaining people who
> want
> user pages would do what [[User:Tony Sidaway]] has done, and simply
> userpagify their talk pages (That Tony Sidaway... always sticking it to
> the
> man! *;-)* ), bringing us back to square one.
>
> JDoorjam
>
>
> On 2/18/06, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > What's the worst thing that could happen if we got rid of userpages
> > altogether? Wikipedia would grind to a halt because most of the users
> > would
> > probably leave. Not because they're hugely attached to their userpages,
> > but
> > because it would be a ringing endorsement of the conduct of certain
> admins
> > (deleting inflammatory userboxes without a policy for it, and then when
> > there IS a policy for it they abuse THAT, and block people who disagree
> > with
> > them, etcetera) in this whole userbox mess.
> >
> > Cynical
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