On 2/22/07, Jeremy Cushman <mets501wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I created the User:UBX account solely to host userboxes migrated via the
Userbox Migration (formerly called The German Solution). I have been
using
my bot, User:MetsBot, to migrate many useboxes to a subpage of
User:UBX. I
started by migrating only clearly controversial userboxes, but then
moved
into userboxes about interests, etc, which was
met by opposition from
some.
Just to be clear, isn't the consensus that we're migrating basically all
userboxes which cannot directly help the project, and keeping ones such
as
languages, education level and expertise,
WikiProject affiliations, time
zones, locations, and a few others? Should a userbox like "This user
was
a
boy scout" really not be migrated?
Thanks.
--Mets501
Where there's a consensus to move the userboxes, I don't see any harm in
keeping a central library. Even if you don't move them into that
userspace,
you could have redirects pointing out *from* User:UBX to the actual
template/userpages involved.
As far as where the consensus is, I haven't touched or looked at anything
involving the userbox wars for quite some time. I suppose, if everything
is
located in or pointed at from the userspace of User:UBX, then you might be
able to make a template which accepts userbox names as a parameter and
calls
the relevant subpages.
But not sure if other people will think that's a good idea. ;)
-Luna
That's not really what I was thinking. I was just migrating them into
userspace, just as Scepia, Rfrisbie, Xaosflux, and many others have done.
My main question was if I was correct in my views of which templates remain
in template space, and which remain in user space. I think the name
User:UBX was confusing people; it wasn't meant to be a quasi-namespace or
anything, just a location where Userboxes could be stored.
--Mets501