I can't see how this solves anything.
You can still use Google for example to find everyone.
http://tinyurl.com/9w6yj
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/4/06, Carbonite <carbonite.wp(a)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.
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