On 1/6/06, Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia <zzyzx11(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Here's something that crossed my mind:
As the number of userboxes continues to increase, I am starting to see a
number of them that are currently NOT being used by ANYONE. So in a couple
weeks from now, if these same userboxes are still not being used on any
userpage, shouldn't they be put on TFD like any other unused, orphaned
template? Why or why not?
Zzyzx11 at
en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11
zzyzx11(a)hotmail.com
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.
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.
--
Ben Emmel
Wikipedia - User:Bratsche
bratsche1(a)gmail.com
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
-- William Blake