On 1/3/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
None. It is the categorization that is the problem, facilitated to some extent by the convenience of userboxes (the ease of typing {{user bigendinan}} compared to "[[Category: Bigendian wikipedians]]).
Categorization people by skill or by services provided is a good use of user boxes. But the beliefs and religions userboxes provide a handy telephone book for people interested in pushing a point of view an unscrupulous enough to spam user talk pages or contact likely supporters by email.
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Why do you not view the religion or viewpoint boxes the same as those with geographical location or language? If I am doing some RC patrol, and notice a questionable edit to a Hindu article, wouldn't a [[Category:Hindu Wikipedians]] be useful? That way, I can search out a user to look into the edit. Same thing goes for an edit to an article on Communism: I don't claim to be an expert on that subject, so shouldn't I be able to search out an editor using [[Category:Communist Wikipedians]]?
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