Deleting userpages would make editing unnecessarily hard. I'd would instantly kill all the notes I keep on my wiki projects. And all the links I keep for easy access so I don't have to search to find stuff.
Basically, I can only see downsides to doing it.
Mgm
On 2/22/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Getting rid of user pages is like curing the disease by killing the patient. Completely unnecessary.
Ryan
On 2/22/06, Ben Lowe ben.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
Not only would a number of users simply leave (the benefits and final ramifications of which I'm sure many people have many different opinions on), and not only would it generate bad press from the snickering Wikipedia Defeatists ("looks like Wikipedia can't allow everyone to edit it after all!" You know that'd start showing up), but the remaining people who want user pages would do what [[User:Tony Sidaway]] has done, and simply userpagify their talk pages (That Tony Sidaway... always sticking it to the man! *;-)* ), bringing us back to square one.
JDoorjam
On 2/18/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk
wrote:
What's the worst thing that could happen if we got rid of userpages altogether? Wikipedia would grind to a halt because most of the users would probably leave. Not because they're hugely attached to their
userpages,
but because it would be a ringing endorsement of the conduct of certain
admins
(deleting inflammatory userboxes without a policy for it, and then
when
there IS a policy for it they abuse THAT, and block people who
disagree
with them, etcetera) in this whole userbox mess.
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