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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe <ben.lowe(a)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.
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