[WikiEN-l] kelvSYC's take on userboxes

Sun Jan 15 22:53:30 UTC 2006

> I suspect that I'm not the only one to understand this 
> behavior in this way, for a few months ago Uncle G refused to 
> create a user page to combat this assumption. (However, when 
> I've asked the occasionally newbie who doesn't have a user 
> page to create one, I've never been refused; I'd say that 
> Uncle G was needlessly fighting a battle that didn't need to be
> fought.)

Um. Aren't we here to make an encyclopaedia?  I think I'd made a few
hundred edits before I decided to add anything to my user page. From
memory, I added a few links to my favourite pages so I could get there
easily.  Even still, I have nothing about me on my user page - just
links, and two dreaded user boxes.

I would be more concerned about someone with no edits other than a user
page. That would be a MySpace candidate...

Steve