On 5/16/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/16/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
That said, I have occassionally glanced at someone's user page after seeing them make some strange edits, only to see a userbox which put the edits into perspective. In the particular case I'm thinking about (though I forget the specifics), the user was actually arguing the opposite point from that expressed in the userbox, and I believe they were doing so in good faith.
Fair enough. It could probably be said that had they expressed themselves in their own words rather than with a cookie cutter userbox, this goal would be achieved even better.
Steve
True, and I've never personally used templates to search for people, whether for good purposes or bad ones, so I really don't have any *proof* that such userboxes are used that way. But I've always been of the opinion that the good effects of giving people more information outweighs the bad effects. In fact, it's that opinion that brought me to Wikipedia in the first place.
Anthony