Correction: Not slippery slope...just annoying :\
On 2/7/06, Ilya N. <ilyanep(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But it removes the slippery slope argument of "Why this and not that?"
Babel is the only box I've seen that can be directly tied to
encyclopedic matters
On 2/7/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/7/06, The Cunctator
<cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/06, Ilya N. <ilyanep(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm afraid I must agree.
> >
> > As an editor of 3 years I must ask what happened to writing an
> encyclopedia?
> > How come we become more about community just because we're in the
top-20
> of
> > internet sites?
> >
> > I must say that the community has started trudging along and
becoming
more
venomous over the last few months to a year.
If it were me I'd say delete all userboxes except for the babels and
mandate
that users spend more attention on articles and
meta issues relating
*directly
> to articles
> *
There's nothing wrong with the occasional userbox. There's a number of
them
on my user and apart from copyright issues with
the images involved,
none of
them really caused me any problems. religious and
political userboxes
can
have their place as well. They tell you where
people's expertise lies.
It's boxes about someone's beliefs that probably need to go. Those are
the
ones that cause a division (with people who
don't agree).
Besides, I don't see the use in setting up a userbox for each little
thing.
We've got Template:Userbox which anyone can
alter and subst: into their
userspace. No need for all those separate templates.
Mgm
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