On 1/4/06, Nathan Russell windrunner@gmail.com wrote:
If users are engaging in personal attacks, racism, homophobia, or what have you in userboxes, talk pages, wikipedia_talk pages, or anywhere else on WP, that should be dealt with in terms of WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL, and their sister policies. Not in terms of userboxes being a bad thing, but in terms of some userboxes (and some users' use of userboxes) being disruptive to the community and being individually taken to TFD as such.
Oh I completely agree. The babel boxes, etc, indeed most userboxes, are fine. Some may be used for attacks and must be deleted. Some promote factionalism by providing a handy directory for the pushers of various points of view (I have identified three such cases in the past three weeks) and they must also go. I don't thinkk we need be overly concerned about "powered by alcohol" and other joky stuff.