Matt Brown wrote:
On 2/21/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Not really. Declaring {{user childless}} and {{User Public Transit}} anathema does not strike me as a good idea.
That said, I'd rather read someone's beliefs and philosophy in their own, considered words.
As would I. Proposal:
"Userboxes, consisting of Babel template-like contructs which have one sentance of text describing a user in the third person, are considered plagiarism, copyright infringement, and anyone using them for purposes other than declaring their skills in languages, for the purposes of writing an encyclopedia, will have the 'userbox' deleted, their fingernails pulled out, and their account blocked.
Signed this merry day the 22nd of February, in the year of our Lord 2006,
His Royal Jimboliness, Jimbo Wales"
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