On 19/01/2008, Ian A Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It's not about them wasting their time, as
that is not for us to decide.
It's not the way the community expects the hosting services provided by
Wikipedia to be used. It's also not what we want people to associate
Wikipedia with. That, in my opinion, is the point.
German Wikipedia got hard-arsed on them and restricted them to Babel
and location templates.
I think the big cull on en:wp came from ones that were obviously
divisive or were being used for organised POV-pushing, i.e. things
that were actively harming the project. Just being a dead weight on
the project wasn't considered sufficient harm to kill the damn things
off.
James Forrester is, by the way, *very sorry indeed* for inventing the
things. I bet he wishes he'd invented something nicer, like herpes.
David,
wrong thread I believe. This one is referring to games in userspaces,
not the userboxes.
Ian [[User:Poeloq]]