Fred Bauder wrote:
On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Instead, perhaps what we should do is establish a rule that all pages in the User: namespace must be somehow related to the project and not contrary to its goals, and must, if necessary, explain how they are so; if not, they may and should be speedily deleted.
To me this is just one more bunch of rules to enforce. We have so far to go in presenting usable verifiable information from reputable source that getting after inappropriate user pages seems out of priority.
You do have a point. On the other hand, people (including Jimbo) obviously _do_ care about inappropriate user pages, as evidenced by the Great Userbox Wars of '06. Since this seems unlikely to change, a rule that made dealing with such pages simpler and more effective could in fact free up more time for actually building the encyclopedia.