On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
Your comment ( "(a) Wikipedia pages relate to the mission, not anyone's felt need for self-expression" ) goes, or seems to imply (and is being read that way by several of us...) much further. I don't think there's support or a consensus for much further. Wikipedia isn't a blog, social networking site, or user homepage - but it is a community, and a working environment (volunteer as it is), and as David points out, people like to decorate their cubes (in whatever form cubes take). This is normal human behavior and not something to be arbitrarily squashed.
Well then, please read in the on-topic fashion - if done in such a way as to "lower the tone", I recall, userpages are not really welcome to contain just anything. But the misreading of userspace=user page here is vexing. The problem comes, re blogging, when people really do "blog" on dedicated user pages, in violation of WP:USER, and apparently stand on their rights to do that.
Ok. I am not trying to be needlessly confrontational here, your earlier comments seemed to imply something else.
What you're describing doesn't seem to me to be all that prevalent on en.wp now. I am open to examples and discussion to demonstrate a pattern requiring action.