G'day Steve,
Well, most people seem to be strongly in favour of keeping their user pages for storing work in progress or their favourite links. My next question:
What is the worst possible thing that could happen if no one else could see your user page?
Apart from a couple of vague references to babel boxes, no one seems to have indicated much that would be lost without a public userpage.
Um! Over here! Not drowning, waving!
Both Fred Bauder and Yours Truly have strongly hinted that we find it *very* useful to view others' userpages, if only to say "oh, that explains it" at times.
Cheers,
-- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!" - Danger Mouse