[WikiEN-l] Jimbo and his strategy

[Death Phoenix]

While I don't agree with everything you're saying or the way you're saying
it, you make one interesting point: if Jimbo just came right out now and
said "You are only allowed to have this sort of userbox, and you are only
allowed to have x amount of them", this userbox fiasco would come to an end:
admins can go around deleting them and all the userbox defenders would have
nothing (concrete) to say about it. Conversely, if Jimbo said "all userboxes
are fine", the userbox defenders are free to keep their userboxes, the
admins will know not to delete anything, and we'll all be fine.

I'm sure that part of the reason he hasn't is because he doesn't know what
the right solution is, but the longer he waits, the longer this whole
userbox fiasco's going to play out. But signs are really beginning to point
to the fact that Jimbo will need to make an official decree about this whole
mess.

I think Jimbo came pretty close to expressing his wishes with the Template
CSD, but there will likely come a time when we need him to make a stronger
and more official statement on Wikipedia.

On 2/20/06, STEFAN CLAUDIU TIULEA <wizzard_bane at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If you want to 'skip' someone, just do it. There's no
> need to hold an announcement about it, just to try to
> embarrass them. In fact, I find it a bit childish. I'm
> not clueless about Wiki. I said that Jimbo should
> first decide on what he wants, then put it into
> action. Look at the mess he created. This conflict is
> old and is still going.
>
> Kelly blocked a guy for disruption; and the disruption
> was when the guy said he would keep his userboxes
> because he didn't find the term "inflammatory", used
> by Jimbo, explicative enough. I checked his userpage
> and I found nothing in disorder. Neither his message,
> nor his userpage, violated anything, yet he was
> blocked. Maybe you veterans could explain that to me.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kelly_Martin#.E2.80.9CInflammatory.E2.80.9D
>
> --- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm starting to skip your stuff too. You need to
> > become familiar with
> > Wikipedia and adopt an attitude of cooperative
> > problem solving to
> > participate effectively.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > On Feb 20, 2006, at 1:56 AM, charles matthews wrote:
> >
> > > "STEFAN CLAUDIU TIULEA" wrote
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> If you have something to say to me, just do so.
> > Don't
> > >> try to provoke me with these pitty insults.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Fine.. You're clueless about Wikipedia and I won't
> > be reading any
> > > more of
> > > your mails.
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > >
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