Is there a userbox for "this user is a developer on mediawiki"? That would be handy too. Similarly, "this user has a PhD in Greek history" type things. Roll your eyes, but at the end of the day, it is helpful to know whether someone is talking completely out of the arse or not.
On the other hand, someone stating that they're Jewish doesn't offer any kind of insight into their expertise on Jewish affairs.
So I would support a delineation of project-oriented vs non-project-oriented userboxes. It may be helpful to deliberately prevent people from getting lists of all "X-like" people, where X is non-project oriented.
Steve
On 2/7/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
Correction: Not slippery slope...just annoying :\
On 2/7/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/7/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/6/06, Ilya N. ilyanep@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.
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