[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

[Kelly Martin]

On 1/3/06, charles matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> They fulfil a function, or you wouldn't be bringing it up.  I am against all
> polarising moves on WP, since I think we need to gather in the centre ground
> to do the job. (Like not making centre versus center a big deal, for
> example.)
>
> But I don't think you're going to win on this one.  I would quite agree that
> they are no better than bumper stickers, in many cases.

It should be noted that I don't object to user boxes per se; I have
seven of them on my user page, in fact.  I merely object to user boxes
that violate copyright law, that are offensive, that are incivil, or
that are likely to interfere with our primary mission.

Kelly