[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

Fri Jan 6 00:44:19 UTC 2006

So how do we make things like this go away?  The trouble here is that
a shocking number, maybe an outright majority, of users seem to think
"free speech" on Wikipedia is a higher value than actually writing the
encyclopedia.  I don't think ignoring their views--misguided though
they may be--will improve the encyclopedia, I think it'll make things
worse.

SCZenz

On 1/5/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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