On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:05:33 -0800 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
I believe that under most circumstances a user's main
userpage
[[User:X]] should be a place for that user to state what
they want the
community to know about them and their beliefs,
philosophies, aims,
goals, etc. In other words, the main User: page is
intentionally POV
and there should rarely be a need for other contributors
to edit it.
It strikes me that some of those wanting their user
pages protected
from editing by other users are not doing so out of
actually
experiencing any problems, but rather, as UC says, from
a sense of
'ownership'. This IS a bit troubling. Certainly
userspace is
different than other namespaces in the system, but it
seems to me that
the 'Wiki way' is to avoid trying to fix problems in
software whenever
possible - instead relying on community norms and
consensus to set de
facto policy.
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the rule of the
game here, I
think, and I haven't seen sufficient argument that the
current state
of affairs is so broken as to override the objections.
I generally agree that user pages should be respected. Perhaps the only circumstance where I would feel justified in editing another user's page would be to fix a broken link that I created because of an edit that I did elsewhere.
Ec maybe that`s the problem.people today do not seem to like
protecting each other.on wikipedia we are a family so that means we must protect each other and our views.we do this by being not so eveready to delete those views.
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