[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

Tony Sidaway f.crdfa at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 00:11:39 UTC 2006


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).

The classic case of this was User:Leeharveyoswald, which contained a
facsimile of the Lee Harvey Oswald article that had been altered to
promote a conspiracy theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Leeharveyoswald

Looked like a unanimoujs delete to me.



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