[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

Sat Jan 7 05:37:14 UTC 2006

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Have you examined the figures?   This is a massive growth.  Political
>>and belief-based userboxes have increased tenfold since the end of
>>November.  A database check tells me that of our 3500 or so userboxes,
>>1500 were created in December, and a further 250 have been created in
>>the first three days of January alone.
> 
> 
> Kelly informs me that a large amount of the apparent growth in
> December can be accounted for by cut-and-paste moves of userbox
> templates as they were renamed.  Apparently the userbox people were
> unaware of the fact that a moved template gets a redirect, thus
> preserving the user pages including it.
> 

Can you please point them to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages so they
don't do it again?

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