[WikiEN-l] Worst. Userbox. Ever.

[Steve Bennett]

On 2/6/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> We should do this.  Really we should.  For the sake of the
> encyclopedia these divisive things must die, and acquire a "shoot on
> sight" status.  The community is torn in two by their very presence,
> and I fear that only a software feature preventing the use of
> categories and templates in userspace would work now.  If I want to
> say that I'm available as a resource to those needing a speaker of
> good French, passable Spanish and schoolboy Latin, I can create
> wikiprojects for the purpose and add my name to them.  The userbox is
> a nice idea that, for the encyclopedia, has had absolutely hideous
> consequences.

Likewise, if I want to express that I'm a muslim-hating far-right
Christian fundamentalist, I'll just  create a wikiproject for that
purpose too...

I suspect that if the desire to express such things is there, taking
away a means to do it won't achieve much.

Steve