On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
The scope for abuse of these userboxes has been amply demostrated. They fulfil no function useful to the encyclopedia that isn't done equally well by simply stating one's affiliations on one's user page. They must die.
You really ought to learn to pick your battles. Yes, some people do things on Wikipedia that are less than entirely productive. But some of these things boost community morale and connect people with each other in fun ways. Yes, in an ideal world, we would spend all our time working on the encyclopedia and doing nothing else. But tha door swings both ways. In that world, you would spend all your time working on the encyclopedia, not launching a crusade over trivial crap like this.
Ryan