[WikiEN-l] User:UBX

[Jeremy Cushman]

On 2/22/07, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/22/07, Jeremy Cushman <mets501wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I created the User:UBX account solely to host userboxes migrated via the
> > Userbox Migration (formerly called The German Solution).  I have been
> > using
> > my bot, User:MetsBot, to migrate many useboxes to a subpage of
> > User:UBX.  I
> > started by migrating only clearly controversial userboxes, but then
> moved
> > into userboxes about interests, etc, which was met by opposition from
> > some.
> > Just to be clear, isn't the consensus that we're migrating basically all
> > userboxes which cannot directly help the project, and keeping ones such
> as
> > languages, education level and expertise, WikiProject affiliations, time
> > zones, locations, and a few others?  Should a userbox like "This user
> was
> > a
> > boy scout" really not be migrated?
> > Thanks.
> > --Mets501
>
>
> Where there's a consensus to move the userboxes, I don't see any harm in
> keeping a central library. Even if you don't move them into that
> userspace,
> you could have redirects pointing out *from* User:UBX to the actual
> template/userpages involved.
>
> As far as where the consensus is, I haven't touched or looked at anything
> involving the userbox wars for quite some time. I suppose, if everything
> is
> located in or pointed at from the userspace of User:UBX, then you might be
> able to make a template which accepts userbox names as a parameter and
> calls
> the relevant subpages.
>
> But not sure if other people will think that's a good idea. ;)
>
> -Luna


That's not really what I was thinking.  I was just migrating them into
userspace, just as Scepia, Rfrisbie, Xaosflux, and many others have done.
My main question was if I was correct in my views of which templates remain
in template space, and which remain in user space.  I think the name
User:UBX was confusing people; it wasn't meant to be a quasi-namespace or
anything, just a location where Userboxes could be stored.
--Mets501