Hi,
There has been a poll for a userbox policy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:May_Userbox_policy_poll#Poll which seems to be almost concluded (probably closed by the time you read this) which has garnered more than a two-third consensus for a compromise that will allow even POV userboxes but migrate them out of Template: namespace into a new Userbox: namespace (apparently Rob Church has agreed to create this namespace if the community agrees). Are we finally at the end of the road? Or will this policy also get rejected as no consensus? We sure could do without this particular debate.
Molu
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Molu wrote: ['Userbox: namespace]
Are we finally at the end of the road? Or will this policy also get rejected as no consensus?
I don't particularly want to bring the ongoing userbox debate onto here as well, but: yes, hopefully it will be rejected. Lending a false sense of legitimacy to userboxes is clearly a Bad Thing.
Cheers,
N.
On 5/29/06, Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Molu wrote: ['Userbox: namespace]
Are we finally at the end of the road? Or will this policy also get rejected as no consensus?
I don't particularly want to bring the ongoing userbox debate onto here as well, but: yes, hopefully it will be rejected. Lending a false sense of legitimacy to userboxes is clearly a Bad Thing.
What's this in relation to? I haven't seen any discussion of a userbox name space?
For what it's worth, I realised today the true worth of userboxes. There was a comment made in a project-space debate that could have been either insightful or simply peanut-gallery stuff. Not knowing which it was, I checked the user's page. Several hundred userboxes! That made it so much easier to ignore his comment with a clear conscience.
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
['Userbox: namespace]
Are we finally at the end of the road? Or will this policy also get rejected as no consensus?
I don't particularly want to bring the ongoing userbox debate onto here as well, but: yes, hopefully it will be rejected. Lending a false sense of legitimacy to userboxes is clearly a Bad Thing.
What's this in relation to? I haven't seen any discussion of a userbox name space?
[[Wikipedia:May Userbox policy poll]]
Cheers,
N.
On 5/29/06, Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
What's this in relation to? I haven't seen any discussion of a userbox name space?
[[Wikipedia:May Userbox policy poll]]
It's a non-starter. If having userboxes in template space lends a false sense of legitimacy to this useless and non-encyclopedic privately produced and consumed content, having a separate namespace for them would be worse. And I don't see the developers buying this idea, either.
On 5/29/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/29/06, Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote:
Molu wrote: ['Userbox: namespace]
Are we finally at the end of the road? Or will this policy also get rejected as no consensus?
I don't particularly want to bring the ongoing userbox debate onto here as well, but: yes, hopefully it will be rejected. Lending a false sense of legitimacy to userboxes is clearly a Bad Thing.
What's this in relation to? I haven't seen any discussion of a userbox name space?
For what it's worth, I realised today the true worth of userboxes. There was a comment made in a project-space debate that could have been either insightful or simply peanut-gallery stuff. Not knowing which it was, I checked the user's page. Several hundred userboxes! That made it so much easier to ignore his comment with a clear conscience.
Steve
Why did you want to ignore any comment that you thought could have been insightful? Thats like saying words dont matter its only who says them. I think participants in a community should work of trying to see the best in others comments.
Peter Ansell
On 5/29/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
There has been a poll for a userbox policy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:May_Userbox_policy_poll#Poll...
I think that the fact that it's called "the May poll" indicates just how effective it's going to be.