On 1/6/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
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.
I deleted that one myself.
And then, upon a request on my talk page, undeleted it. I'll let the
TfD run its course.
I'm in favor of deleting a ton of userboxes, especially those with
non-free images, but frankly, I think we should get rid of most of them
anyway. (This is not a decree and I'm trying to stay out of the userbox
wars myself. Mostly.)
Jimbo, I have a question. You think most userboxes should be deleted,
and so do a bunch of other people, including me at this point. But
it's clearly not a supermajority, so almost all userboxes are going to
be kept if people stay within process (the one above may be an
exception). In fact, as we've seen, there are a lot of people who
want to change policy about fairuse images in user space for the sake
of the boxes; maybe they could even change *that* we followed the
usual consensus-based procedure for adopting policy.
I've become more and more convinced that the inmates are indeed
running the asylum on these issues, so my question to you is: what do
you think we (as ordinary users who agree with your non-decree) should
do?
SCZenz