Philip Welch wrote:
Quite frankly, the userbox fans are *not* the people disrupting Wikipedia with an unhealthy fixation with userboxes. This isn't to say that they don't *have* an unhealthy userbox fixation, but rather, that they engage in that fixation in a way that doesn't really prevent the rest of us from writing an encyclopedia.
This turns out to be factually incorrect: the userbox issue didn't blow up until the "Catholic Alliance of Wikipedia" specifically tried to use userboxes to do an end-run around the NPOV policy. Then it was on.
- d.