On 1/4/06, Conrad Dunkerson conrad.dunkerson@worldnet.att.net wrote:
SCZenz wrote:
- The userbox wikiproject go through and get rid of all userbox images used
that have inappropriate copyright permissions for userpages, including fair use images. Likewise they make sure there are no meta-template issues in the userboxes. The Wikiproject agrees to police these problems itself in the future.
As I understand it, they have been working on both of those tasks for a while now. The huge spike in userbox edits in December was due to these folks going through and replacing all 'userbox' templates with 'user' templates and updating them on the page of every person using them.
May have been *partly* responsible for that spike. But when I look at the belief-based user boxes and discover that 41 out of 44 listed did not even *exist* before December, and moreover a large proportion were created over the Christmas and New Year period, I get a very different picture. No, it's a massive growth in the number of userboxes.
From the above figures we can see that the growth in political
userboxes, whose *sole* purpose is to link an editor into a handy group that enables them to operate as a political bloc, has been some tenfold.
They must die.