Yes, this confused me. A template is part of the encyclopedia.
Userboxes are more self-expression. Separating them out will help.
Fred
On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/18/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net>
wrote:
> I think to a degree Wikipedia has reached
that stage Usenet did,
> where
> suddenly the influx of new people is beyond the rate at which they
> tend to acclimate to the older culture. There are so many newbies
> that a newbie-culture can develop without having to join the
> existing
> one.
>
Is this true? It's a fairly bold statement...is there evidence for it?
> My thoughts: move all userboxes to user:
space, so that they are
> obviously not official and not part of the encyclopedia project
> proper. Then ignore them except for awful examples.
>
That seems reasonable - encyclopaedic templates and userboxes should
probably not be mixed. We could always create a "user template:"
namespace too.
Steve
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