[WikiEN-l] Userbox compromise proposal (Was: Proposal on userbox disagreement)

Thu Jan 5 15:59:22 UTC 2006

Give people their own page/room/clothing and a way to customize it,
and do so to show their identity, as an end in itself.  Seems pretty
harmless.

On 1/5/06, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Carbonite <carbonite.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/5/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You know I suspect that we're making this whole thing unnecessarily
> > > complicated.  Why don't we just let people keep their userbox
> > > templates but remove the categories?  I'm pretty sure that doing so
> > > would make instances of abuse pretty rare.  The boxes themselves
> > > aren't really much of a problem, they're just a means of
> > > self-expression.
> >
> > I tried removing the categories from the templates that had been
> > nominated for deletion. This was reverted almost immediately...by
> > someone with less than 50 article edits (but with over 700 total
> > edits). That's when I began to wonder who was running the asylum.
>
>
> Ah yes, an editor who manages to devote only 6% of his edits to articles,
> who has apparently never felt the need to make even *one* comment on an
> article Talk: page, and who has 4 times as many edits to his user page as to
> the encyclopedia itself.  Well, on the bright side, he appears to have only
> 26 userboxes on his user page.
>
> Um, what are these people doing here again?
>
> Jay.
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