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

Thu Jan 5 21:50:18 UTC 2006

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of jayjg

> 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?

Being demonised instead of guided, it would seem. If long-established
editors greet newcomers with hostility, they should hardly be surprised when
this behaviour is taken as the established norm.

Peter (Skyring)