[WikiEN-l] Proposal on userbox disagreement

Wed Jan 4 01:48:16 UTC 2006

My proposal was more to deal with the immediate problem and associated
wheel warring, which has at least in my experience been very ugly.

But I think you might be right, Tony.  This new development is
disturbing in general.  I don't favor a rush to action, but we do need
a reasoned consensus (among people who actually edit articles) about
what to do--and I think I'd support, personally, a policy against POV
userboxes.

SCZenz

On 1/3/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/06, SCZenz <sczenz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > 2. Kelly Martin aknowledges that there are many serious contributors who
> > like userboxes, so her decision to delete userboxes in defiance of those
> > contributors' opinions was an overreaction.
> >
>
> This has nothing to do with Kelly Martin.  To give an indication of
> the scale and rapidity of the growth of this problem, editing of
> userboxes in December exceeded by a good margin all editing of
> userboxes, ever, prior to that month.  Of 44 templates listed under
> beliefs, I counted only 3 that existed before December, and the vast
> majority seem to have been created in the past two weeks.
>
> We must stamp hard on this or we will have permitted these new editors
> to rebuild Wikipedia in the form of a network of people classified by
> political and religious alliances.
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