[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

Fri Jan 6 00:04:59 UTC 2006

My position in short

We are here to write an encyclopedia. First before all.

Userbox are interesting if they are related to Wikipedia activity and 
growth.

Wikipedians mood IS actually important to the community building and 
interacting.
Which browsers are used is also an interesting information to know how 
Wikipedia appears to readers, detect bugs...
Which language the user manage or which project he participates to is 
also interesting for project management and editors daily interactions.

All this is well and good.

Which hand is used to masturbate self is of no interest within wikipedia 
activity, except if one is actually masturbating himself while writing a 
message on another user talk page. Is that related to Wikipedia ? Is 
that helping the community ? No. So, it should go away.

Having a template stating something against our goals, such as {{User 
allow fairuse}} has a name : it is trolling. Trolling has benefits... 
sometimes. But if it disrupts the community too much (and generate 
thousands of mails on a mailing list, huge loss of time), then, it 
should just go away.

ant

SCZenz wrote:
> How about {{User allow fairuse}}?  That seems to be against pretty
> much everything Wikipedia stands for.  If we have so many users who
> think they can *vote* in an unreasonable copyright policy, maybe we
> need unilateral admin action after all.
> 
> On 1/5/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have not followed ANY of the discussion on userbox. Have no idea what
>>is going on, no idea who supports what, no idea what is going on.
>>
>>However, I just speedy deleted {{User masturbation-left}}.
>>
>>It contained this image :
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Masturbationsm.jpg
>>
>>Sorry if that appears like an admin abuse or whatever, but imho, this is
>>just ***ridiculous***.
>>
>>
>>ant
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