Still, no value being added for having an 8 word template over a frivolous irrelevant topic. If people want to express themselves, they can do so by WRITING their opinions on their userpages, and that will even let do so on their own words not being restricted to 8 words.
It's not like they're being censored. They can still talk about icecream flavors on their userpages. (After all, isn't WRITING what we are all here fore?). The problem is the unnecesary waste of resources by having the template.
On 2/20/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/06, Drini drini wpdrini@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly. There's no problem about writing "I like chocolate strawberry ice cream" on your userpage. It's the template namespace pollution that creating an userbox for that sole purpose that causes the problem.
I don't know what mediawiki's limit on the upper length for article titles is but I know it is greater than 20 letters. Assuming we stick to the latin alphabet an ignore spaces that gives us 19,928,148,895,209,400,000,000,000,000 posible templates. I don't think we need to worry to much about polution.
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