[WikiEN-l] Worst. Userbox. Ever.

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 2/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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


Technically speaking you could, but I would support an immediate blocking.
It would constitute baiting and refueling the fire over this debate, and
it's really not helpful to creating an encyclopedia to begin with.

Mgm