On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:37 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I certainly don't want suggestion 3 to be done.
Wikipedians by field of
interest and any category that shows specific Wikipedian knowledge and
expertise have a use in the project and would be deleted with this
suggestion just because a few people have been warring.
No. They would not.
Wikipedians by field of interest could (and
should) be merged into the WikiProjects list - I've continued to wonder
what benefit it is to know that a wikipedian is a firefox user *if they
are not interested in web brower articles on wikipedia*. What does
that get us in terms of writing the encyclopedia?
And what is the use in banning images on userboxes
when they are to be
hardcoded anyway?
To prevent whatlinkshere from being a quick way to generate a
list of
people identifying with that statement. I think this is a little over
the top, but thats the reason.
How about we get around the table and decide on what
type of user
categorization and boxes would be acceptable?
I think merely basing it on - it has
to be useful to writing an
encyclopedia, i.e. it needs a page in the Wikipedia namespace, is
probably sufficient.
See the proposed policy.
Jesse Weinstein