On 2/17/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've suggested this on the workshop page of the
Tony Sidaway RFAr
(which is basically the AC case that had *better* deal conclusively
with the userbox issue) and I present it here for your esteemed
dissection.
I't won't it doesn't have enough coverage for that.
"The Arbcom recommends to Jimbo a declaration as
policy:
* Rather than permitting all userboxes and disallowing only the worst
ones, policy shall follow the model on de: and move to certain
userboxes being permitted and all others limited or forbidden.
* Userboxes for human languages spoken and for geographic location are
unlimited.
Are timezones geographic locations?
* A user may display three other userboxes, whether by
template, page
transclusion, code substitution, image or other means. Other userboxes
may be subject to deletion discussion on WP:TFD,
Define userbox. Three is excessive and I'm claiming interlectal
property rights on the idea of multi issue userboxes (so no one can
use it)
: except those
susceptible to speedy deletion under T1."
T1 is an abuse of CSD.
Cutting the Gordian knot.
* de: has Babel and location only and has yet to collapse in user
civil war. I deliberately didn't include "and others per community
consensus" as
(a) purported "community consensus" going against the actual aims
of the project was how we got into this mess;
I seem to recall it had something to do with a load of mass deletion
reducing the posibilty of rational negotation.
(b) any attempted "community consensus"
on the subject of
userboxes has become a festering mess of sockpuppets, meatpuppets,
getting the vote out, wheel warring, process-addict querulousness
versus hipshooting IAR and several multi-volume fantasy epics' worth
of flamewars.
Yes it has made AFD seem quite peacful by comparision. Quite an
atchivement considering we appear to be being trolled by YTMND at the
moment.
* The "or other means" takes care of the
userbox warriors.
No it won't. Trust me on this. It will make their rule lawyering more
entertaining though.
* Where you take bad userboxes to kill them is spelt
out.
Userboxes are not killed. They are baked in an autocave then burried
under a mountian along with outher high level waste.
--
geni