On 2/5/06, Matt R <matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Perhaps the divisive userboxes could die, but (at least) the language boxes are
effective and useful for their purpose in a way that users adding themselves to
lists in obscure parts of the Wikipedia would not be. (Also, many people find
the use of templates to be very useful within userspace.)
Oh I do agree. Just trying to "think out of the box".
Actually my research results (the only research on this that I'm aware
of) suggest that there isn't a lot of this going on. Of 230 editors,
chosen because their userpages were on my watchlist, who were still
active over the past two months, when I checked their userpages only
22 had political, polemical or religious userboxes. This comprises A
through E on my watchlist, and a random selection of active editors
from the rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tony_Sidaway/Jimbo%27s_request#A