John wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#User:...
This template which I speedied under CSD T1 and pure common sense is now on DRV because some process wonks are pointing out...
Whoah. As near as I can tell, all the UDUIW userbox said was, "This user is a member of Users in Defense of Userboxes and Individuality on Wikipedia." So by suppressing it, we've made not one but two leaps:
(1) That userboxes can be so dangerous that they need to be suppressed, as argued by the oft-repeated incident in which a "this user is Catholic" userbox allowed 40+ users to rally around the deletion poll for [[Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia]].
(2) That suppressing dangerous userboxes is so contentious yet so vital that those in support of userboxes need to be suppressed also.
I hope I'm not being melodramatic, but this is really starting to sound like "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Steve Summit [[User:Ummit]] scs@eskimo.com