The question I have is how can we establish a workable procedure to delete destructive user boxes, one that doesn't generate a lot of conflict and wheelwarring. AND make it vary clear that userboxes which just express opinions are perfectly acceptable and not subject to campaigns of suppression. I don't intend to spend one second watching and voting on Templates for deletion, but I like to not have to worry about things going wrong there.
Fred
On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:56 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
On 2/17/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Stop worrying about userboxes and write an encyclopedia already. If and when userboxes interfere with encyclopedia-writing activities, react in an appropriately minimalist fashion and proceed with the encyclopedia-writing.
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.
The people disrupting Wikipedia—that would be us, writing dozens of messages to this listserv about them. Aren't we the people who actually care about writing an encyclopedia? Then why don't we do that, instead of wasting our time compiling statistics about userboxes, trying to delete them, and debating the right way to do that?
The people disrupting Wikipedia, maybe, are the people writing messages to the listserv about people writing messages to the listserv about userboxes.
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