I can't see how this solves anything.
You can still use Google for example to find everyone.
User's will be able to solicit votes whether there are user template boxes or not. Finding editors speaking a certain language or geographical location can help rallying troops for long standing national enmity POV wars. (Think Asia, Eastern Europe, etc)
People can go through the talk page archives to find anyone who has expressed a certain POV in the past. I've seen this for example at an [[Intelligent Design]] straw poll.
The general problem is that with a growing number of editors the consensus building starts to give way to [[mass politics]].
Fewer and fewer editors know or remember each other by name.
I'm not sure if there is an easy solution. Maybe an eBay rating / Slashdot karma like system is the way to go.
nyenyec
On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/4/06, Carbonite carbonite.wp@gmail.com wrote: [..]
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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l