On 2/22/07, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/22/07, Jeremy Cushman mets501wiki@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