On 9/5/07, Adrian <aldebaer(a)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.