I've suggested this on the workshop page of the Tony Sidaway RFAr (which is basically the AC case that had *better* deal conclusively with the userbox issue) and I present it here for your esteemed dissection. Ignoring procedural matters (the AC has yet to make policy that it isn't damn sure is already consensus), here's a proposal: "The Arbcom recommends to Jimbo a declaration as policy: * Rather than permitting all userboxes and disallowing only the worst ones, policy shall follow the model on de: and move to certain userboxes being permitted and all others limited or forbidden. * Userboxes for human languages spoken and for geographic location are unlimited. * A user may display three other userboxes, whether by template, page transclusion, code substitution, image or other means. Other userboxes may be subject to deletion discussion on WP:TFD, except those susceptible to speedy deletion under T1." Cutting the Gordian knot. * de: has Babel and location only and has yet to collapse in user civil war. I deliberately didn't include "and others per community consensus" as (a) purported "community consensus" going against the actual aims of the project was how we got into this mess; (b) any attempted "community consensus" on the subject of userboxes has become a festering mess of sockpuppets, meatpuppets, getting the vote out, wheel warring, process-addict querulousness versus hipshooting IAR and several multi-volume fantasy epics' worth of flamewars. * The "or other means" takes care of the userbox warriors. * Where you take bad userboxes to kill them is spelt out. Note also that my own userpage would presently fall afoul of this one. Please discuss. - d.