[WikiEN-l] Worst. Userbox. Ever.

[geni]

On 2/5/06, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> And look at what I just got on my talk page for deleting an attack template
> and recreating it blank:
>
>     Warning level 2; Blanking.
>
>     Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to
>     Template:User paedophile. It is considered vandalism. If you want to
>     experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —BorgHunter ubx (talk)
>     23:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
>
> Could someone please kill all userboxes conclusively, even the 'useful'
> ones. And give James F. a look for having invented them, something he is
> *very sorry for indeed*.
>
> (I replied pointing out that blanking is 'simple vandalism', but deleting
> and recreating blank is whoops, NOT LISTED! And that trolling userboxes
> aren't "Wikipedia content". I expressed my sincere hope also that this
> satisfied the urge to process sufficiently.)
>
>
> - d.

That last excuse won't work president is slightly against you. I also
seem to recall from debates about the three revert rule that how you
do things doesn't matter if the results are functionaly the same.


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geni