On 9/5/07, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton schrieb:
Sounds like a userbox to me, and a fairly harmless one. Is X is the template namespace? If so, I think policy is to move it to the user namespace.
The templates are in template namespace, while the notices to add them are on article talk pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Alpha_Kappa_Alpha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Alpha_Phi_Alpha
Steven Walling schrieb:
That's unacceptable imo. I'm all for userboxes (within reason), but saying anyone should (and for new users, it could be misinterpreted as must) add a sorority or frat userbox to their userpage via article talk space is clearly a violation of "not a social space" to me. It has the distinct potential to detract from the central goal, to write a neutral encyclopedia. Not to mention that such articles shouldn't be lorded over by members and alumuni anyway.
I agree, but didn't want to take any unilateral action.
Adrian
You could move the userbox recommendation text to the WP:FRAT project page, where it would (incidentally) serve both purposes better, and provide an extra degree of separation between the two.
Sounds like a decent compromise. Do it.
—C.W.