charles matthews wrote:
"Matt Brown" wrote
I do suspect in the current climate that will just make a dozen people
start to use it, to protect it.
Something to that. Attention-seeking behaviour is sometimes best treated by ignoring it, as parents know.
Wisdom.
Having said that, I heard today that the number of userboxes, and in particular the number of very problematic userboxes, has exploded. I think this is seriously Not Good For Our Loving Little Community.
I am not doing anything about it just yet, but I am willing to concede that my nonviolent social request that people knock it off and think about what it means to be a Wikipedian has not gotten very far.
As far as I can determine, and I am very much aware that I am here prejudicing the terms of debate, this is a cultural battle between wikipedians and people who have stumbled into this cool site they heard about on CNN where you can write whatever the hell you want and argue with people for fun.
--Jimbo