From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ben Emmel
Check out [[WP:TFD]] right now. Currently, there is a
whole
bunch of userbox warriors that are going to stall and keep
any userbox that comes their way. In short, the box is going
to get kept anyways. An example of this is {{User fair use}},
which Jimbo himself deleted before being informed of the TfD
debate, which is really irrelevant, considering that we can't
disobey the US copyright law that Wikipedia is legally
obligated to fllow.
Yeah, well that's one that's gotta go.
Looks to me that the userbox editors are disrupting
the flow
and work of Wikipedia, but I'd be interested to hear what
others think. Those who have five times as many userbox edits
as mainspace edits can't be helping Wikipedia all that much.
Perhaps if they weren't being stirred up, they might be doing more work in
articlespace, hmmmm? And if they are doing *some* work in articlespace, it
doesn't really matter if they are having a party in userspace the rest of
the time. What's the aim of the game: to build an encyclopaedia or to kick
newbies?
Peter (Skyring)