Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Have you examined the figures? This is a massive growth. Political and belief-based userboxes have increased tenfold since the end of November. A database check tells me that of our 3500 or so userboxes, 1500 were created in December, and a further 250 have been created in the first three days of January alone.
Kelly informs me that a large amount of the apparent growth in December can be accounted for by cut-and-paste moves of userbox templates as they were renamed. Apparently the userbox people were unaware of the fact that a moved template gets a redirect, thus preserving the user pages including it.
Can you please point them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging_and_moving_pages so they don't do it again?