On 1/5/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/5/06, Carbonite carbonite.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I tried removing the categories from the templates that had been nominated for deletion. This was reverted almost immediately...by someone with less than 50 article edits (but with over 700 total edits). That's when I began to wonder who was running the asylum.
Welcome to the Eternal September of Wikipedia.
I suspect that, had you tried to remove the categories before this entire affair had occurred, you could have done so with little objection; and that, once this fades from memory somewhat, you'll be able to do so as well.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people right now who wouldn't normally care about userboxes, but, in the current atmosphere, will view any attempt to change them as an extension of the initial deletion spree. Completely unfair - but pretty unavoidable, at this point.
Kirill Lokshin