On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:27:30 +0200, Nickanc Wikipedia nickanc.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO, Wikilove is something so important about wikipedia's ethics and behaviour that shall be in every wiki. IMHO.
I absolutely disagree. Wikipedia ethics and behavior encourage thanking the contributors, but it can be done in many ways, not necessarily with a barnstar (or with a laurel, or a lotus flower, or whatever is appropriate). There are many users with the template of a barnstar-free zone, and they obviously do not want barnstars. Along the same line of reasoning, I see that 99% of admins use template warnings which I hate and I never used any template warning except for copyright violation when I was still an admin. In my opinion, getting a template warning is pretty much the same as talking to a bot. Barnstars are a different issue, but barnstar-free zones are not for nothing. If one has a wikilove sign hanging on a top of the page, one is more likely to click it than to go to the user talk page and write a real thank you message.
Cheers Yaroslav