On 1/4/06, Conrad Dunkerson <conrad.dunkerson(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote:
SCZenz wrote:
1. The userbox wikiproject go through and get rid
of all userbox images used
that have inappropriate copyright permissions for userpages, including fair
use images. Likewise they make sure there are no meta-template issues in
the userboxes. The Wikiproject agrees to police these problems itself in
the future.
As I understand it, they have been working on both of those tasks for a
while now. The huge spike in userbox edits in December was due to these
folks going through and replacing all 'userbox' templates with 'user'
templates and updating them on the page of every person using them.
May have been *partly* responsible for that spike. But when I look at
the belief-based user boxes and discover that 41 out of 44 listed did
not even *exist* before December, and moreover a large proportion were
created over the Christmas and New Year period, I get a very different
picture. No, it's a massive growth in the number of userboxes.
From the above figures we can see that the growth in
political
userboxes, whose *sole* purpose is to link an editor into a handy
group that enables them to operate as a political bloc, has been some
tenfold.
They must die.