[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

[geni]

On 1/4/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/4/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The difference is that the chess tournament didn't violate copyright,
> > and when told to stop violating copyright, scream that its free speech
> > rights were being violated.
> >
> > The userbox aficianadoes are.
>
>
>  If you're deleting userboxes because they are copyright violations, then
> fine. But what I've been hearing is that you're deleting them because
> they're a waste of time and cause Wikipedia editors to factionalize by POV.
> Not fine.
>
> Ryan

Userboxes as a whole are unlikely to be a copyvio. Some of the images
in them may be.

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geni