[WikiEN-l] Userbox fads

[Tony Sidaway]

On 1/4/06, Nathan Russell <windrunner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If users are engaging in personal attacks, racism, homophobia, or what
> have you in userboxes, talk pages, wikipedia_talk pages, or anywhere
> else on WP, that should be dealt with in terms of WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL,
> and their sister policies.  Not in terms of userboxes being a bad
> thing, but in terms of some userboxes (and some users' use of
> userboxes) being disruptive to the community and being individually
> taken to TFD as such.

Oh I completely agree. The babel boxes, etc, indeed most userboxes,
are fine. Some may be used for attacks and must be deleted.  Some
promote factionalism by providing a handy directory for the pushers of
various points of view (I have identified three such cases in the past
three weeks) and they must also go.  I don't thinkk we need be overly
concerned about "powered by alcohol" and other joky stuff.