On 1/7/06, Ben Emmel bratsche1@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/6/06, Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia zzyzx11@hotmail.com wrote:
Here's something that crossed my mind:
As the number of userboxes continues to increase, I am starting to see a number of them that are currently NOT being used by ANYONE. So in a couple weeks from now, if these same userboxes are still not being used on any userpage, shouldn't they be put on TFD like any other unused, orphaned template? Why or why not?
Zzyzx11 at en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11 zzyzx11@hotmail.com
Check out [[WP:TFD]] right now. Currently, there is a whole bunch of userbox warriors that are going to stall and keep any userbox that comes their way. In short, the box is going to get kept anyways. An example of this is {{User fair use}}, which Jimbo himself deleted before being informed of the TfD debate, which is really irrelevant, considering that we can't disobey the US copyright law that Wikipedia is legally obligated to fllow.
Looks to me that the userbox editors are disrupting the flow and work of Wikipedia, but I'd be interested to hear what others think. Those who have five times as many userbox edits as mainspace edits can't be helping Wikipedia all that much.
I hope the admin who decides closes the {{User fair use}} debate evaluates the quality of the arguments made in relation to the encyclopedia's mission; it'll be deleted then.
SCZenz