Well, most people seem to be strongly in favour of keeping their user pages for storing work in progress or their favourite links. My next question:
What is the worst possible thing that could happen if no one else could see your user page?
Apart from a couple of vague references to babel boxes, no one seems to have indicated much that would be lost without a public userpage.
Steve
On 2/23/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe ben.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
Not only would a number of users simply leave (the benefits and final ramifications of which I'm sure many people have many different opinions on), and not only would it generate bad press from the snickering Wikipedia Defeatists ("looks like Wikipedia can't allow everyone to edit it after all!" You know that'd start showing up), but the remaining people who want user pages would do what [[User:Tony Sidaway]] has done, and simply userpagify their talk pages (That Tony Sidaway... always sticking it to the man! *;-)* ), bringing us back to square one.
Um :)
My talkification of my userpage (or was it the userfication of my talk page?) came out of boredom with a completely useless talk page. All the interesting stuff is on the talk page, so why waste time maintaining both?
Needless to say I make vastly more use of userspace than most Wikipedians.
Of course this isn't about self expression at all, but about its reverse: uniformity and regimentation. They must die. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l