[WikiEN-l] Re: Why has everything gone to hell?

[Ilya N.]

But it removes the slippery slope argument of "Why this and not that?"

Babel is the only box I've seen that can be directly tied to
encyclopedic matters

On 2/7/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/6/06, Ilya N. <ilyanep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm afraid I must agree.
> > >
> > > As an editor of 3 years I must ask what happened to writing an
> > encyclopedia?
> > > How come we become more about community just because we're in the top-20
> > of
> > > internet sites?
> > >
> > > I must say that the community has started trudging along and becoming
> > more
> > > venomous over the last few months to a year.
> > >
> > > If it were me I'd say delete all userboxes except for the babels and
> > mandate
> > > that users spend more attention on articles and meta issues relating
> > *directly
> > > to articles
> > > *
>
>
> There's nothing wrong with the occasional userbox. There's a number of them
> on my user and apart from copyright issues with the images involved, none of
> them really caused me any problems. religious and political userboxes can
> have their place as well. They tell you where people's expertise lies.
> It's boxes about someone's beliefs that probably need to go. Those are the
> ones that cause a division (with people who don't agree).
> Besides, I don't see the use in setting up a userbox for each little thing.
> We've got Template:Userbox which anyone can alter and subst: into their
> userspace. No need for all those separate templates.
>
> Mgm
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