Kill them all. With fire. Spare not a single one.
On a slightly more serious note; the problem is now twofold. There's the userbox mess to clean up, and the mess it's made in the community - ripping the oldies and newbies apart - to clean up too. I'm thinking a bit of friendly re-education into what Wikipedia culture is might not be amiss. Instead of stating, "you don't get it"; teach people what "it" is.
Rob Church
On 2/18/06, Rob Church robchurch.en.wp@googlemail.com wrote:
Kill them all. With fire. Spare not a single one.
On a slightly more serious note; the problem is now twofold. There's the userbox mess to clean up, and the mess it's made in the community
- ripping the oldies and newbies apart - to clean up too. I'm thinking
a bit of friendly re-education into what Wikipedia culture is might not be amiss. Instead of stating, "you don't get it"; teach people what "it" is.
I would argue that there's actually a third problem (which is not necessarily caused by userboxes so much as made apparent by the conflict surrounding them): a certain portion of Wikipedians refuse to believe, on some fundamental level, that Wikipedia is not a democracy. Witness the various discussions over the past (some more obviously detatched from reality than others) about overthrowing Jimbo.
This one won't be, in my opinion, solved by "friendly re-education".
Kirill Lokshin