Ben Emmel wrote:
I think that this is becoming the only viable
solution. However, the
userboxen supporters are also the loudest in shouting "Cabal, Cabal!!", and
hearkening for the ruin of Jimbo. Just today did I see a userbox comparing
him to something out of 1984. In short, they deny everything that Jimbo does
for the good of Wikipedia.
These users greatly lose fact of basic Wikipedia principles: that we are
here to build an encyclopedia, that you don't have a right to edit, and
don't have an automatic right to "free speech". Truly, we have a sort of
Wiki-"generation gap." I don't see an end to these issues any time soon.
Certainly not when we have former admins proposing the oustre of Jimbo
([[User:Karmafist/manifesto]]) and his replacement with an "elected
executive" whose powers would be limited to managing the servers and
basically all the crap Jimbo does now, minus any involvement with
Wikipedia. The newbie disconnect is growing, and people who should know
better are exacerbating it.
There seems to have been a rash of those in the past few days -
[[User:The Ungovernable Force/manifesto]] is even more extreme -
combined with a number of "Userbox Insurgency"-type userboxes. The
issue seems to have become less a question of the userboxes themselves
and more one of "sticking it to The Man" (in this case, Jimbo).
Kirill Lokshin