Ray Saintonge wrote:
I generally agree that user pages should be respected. Perhaps the only circumstance where I would feel justified in editing another user's page would be to fix a broken link that I created because of an edit that I did elsewhere.
I once changed the "picture of the day" template to fix a problem with link table corruption. To complete the fix, I updated the inclusion code on all the user pages that used it. One of the users whose page I edited gave me this earful on my user talk page:
= Markup Editing on MY PAGE! NO! ==
As requested on [[User:JediMaster16|my page]], <i>please</i> do not edit my page without permission. Its annoying. Very annoying.
<center> <div style="color:red; font-size:300%; letter-spacing:.40in; background-color:black; line-height:150%;">THANK YOU</div> </center>
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I suggest we regularly edit each others' user pages in an attempt to break this bizarre perception of ownership.
-- Tim Starling