On 2/5/06, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Could someone please kill all userboxes conclusively, even the 'useful' ones.
We should do this. Really we should. For the sake of the encyclopedia these divisive things must die, and acquire a "shoot on sight" status. The community is torn in two by their very presence, and I fear that only a software feature preventing the use of categories and templates in userspace would work now. If I want to say that I'm available as a resource to those needing a speaker of good French, passable Spanish and schoolboy Latin, I can create wikiprojects for the purpose and add my name to them. The userbox is a nice idea that, for the encyclopedia, has had absolutely hideous consequences.