Imitating articles on user pages (Re: [WikiEN-l] The userbox fad)

Rob gamaliel8 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 22:17:29 UTC 2006


I don't know if there is a policy, but I suggest just putting it up for
deletion. I did the same with a user page/pov article fork recently and it
was deleted with no dissenting votes.

On 1/4/06, Fl Celloguy <flcelloguy at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Finally, I know that this is a tangentally-related issue, but I'm
> wondering
> if there's a policy against imitating genuine articles on user pages (i.e.
> writing about a subject not deemed encyclopedic enough but placing it on
> your user page, with the article's title as the user name, complete with
> stub tags). If there is one, I haven't encountered such a policy. There
> was
> recently some confusion with people misinterpreting such user pages as
> Wikipedia articles (how they got directed to the user page, I don't
> know...). Thoughts on this?
>
>



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