[WikiEN-l] Userbox compromise proposal (Was: Proposal on userbox disagreement)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 1/4/06, Carbonite <carbonite.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> With this setup, a userbox stating "This user is a Democrat" would be
> no different that a sentence on their user page stating that they're a
> Democrat. The user wouldn't be included in a category and couldn't be
> identified through Whatlinkshere. There also wouldn't be any concerns
> about censorship or stifling of free speech.
>
> I'm sure this proposal could use some development, but it's a start. Thoughts?

Looks good.  Perhaps a bot to chase around doing the necessary
substing of unapproved templates, or at least to identify candidates
that someone can fix manually--the code to do this is trivial.