[WikiEN-l] Userboxes: A radical proposal

[Angela]

On 2/18/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   What is the worst possible thing that could happen if we removed
> userpages altogether? Not user talk pages, but "hands off it's mine"
> user pages.

You can take away user pages, but you won't remove the desire for
users to express themselves and explain who they are. I expect we'd
see signatures becoming more like mini-user pages rather than being a
link to a user page if you did this. I think the main danger here
would be losing a sense of community if there was no way of finding
out anything about a person and everyone became anonymous. We need to
remove the "hands off it's mine" view of user pages, not remove the
user pages. It's not the pages themselves that are the problem.

Angela.