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(a)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(a)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(a)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.
Cynical
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