On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:37 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
I certainly don't want suggestion 3 to be done. Wikipedians by field of interest and any category that shows specific Wikipedian knowledge and expertise have a use in the project and would be deleted with this suggestion just because a few people have been warring.
No. They would not. Wikipedians by field of interest could (and should) be merged into the WikiProjects list - I've continued to wonder what benefit it is to know that a wikipedian is a firefox user *if they are not interested in web brower articles on wikipedia*. What does that get us in terms of writing the encyclopedia?
And what is the use in banning images on userboxes when they are to be hardcoded anyway?
To prevent whatlinkshere from being a quick way to generate a list of people identifying with that statement. I think this is a little over the top, but thats the reason.
How about we get around the table and decide on what type of user categorization and boxes would be acceptable?
I think merely basing it on - it has to be useful to writing an encyclopedia, i.e. it needs a page in the Wikipedia namespace, is probably sufficient.
See the proposed policy.
Jesse Weinstein