From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ben Emmel
Check out [[WP:TFD]] right now. Currently, there is a whole bunch of userbox warriors that are going to stall and keep any userbox that comes their way. In short, the box is going to get kept anyways. An example of this is {{User fair use}}, which Jimbo himself deleted before being informed of the TfD debate, which is really irrelevant, considering that we can't disobey the US copyright law that Wikipedia is legally obligated to fllow.
Yeah, well that's one that's gotta go.
Looks to me that the userbox editors are disrupting the flow and work of Wikipedia, but I'd be interested to hear what others think. Those who have five times as many userbox edits as mainspace edits can't be helping Wikipedia all that much.
Perhaps if they weren't being stirred up, they might be doing more work in articlespace, hmmmm? And if they are doing *some* work in articlespace, it doesn't really matter if they are having a party in userspace the rest of the time. What's the aim of the game: to build an encyclopaedia or to kick newbies?
Peter (Skyring)