Truth be told probably not. I ran for adminship at the beginning of summer, failed at 70 percent i believe, and there were a couple opposes because i had a photo of myself on my user page, which was decried as against WP:NOT myspace.
On 9/13/07, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/13/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/09/2007, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 9/13/07 6:14 AM, Anirudh at anirudhsbh@gmail.com wrote:
Somehow, on Wikipedia, people tend to treat other users even worse, as if they
never
profess any kind of feelings like humans do. I am guilty of this, most
of us
are.
And do we accept this as a given? Do we excuse it by saying, "that's the
way
things are & always will be". And, as someone said, "that's the nature
of a
mailing list". Or, do we see it for the primitive, dehumanizing behavior that it is - and do something about it?
Photos on user pages? If you know what someone looks like, they seem more like a real person and less like some bits in a database. Obviously, some people would not want their picture on their user page, but for those that do, it might help. And improving relations between those might help improve relations with the others too.
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Would people really be happier if there was a picture of me on my userpage? I'd be happy to add one if this is some sort of big deal.
WilyD
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