Hi, Not to be dumb, but if people substitute rather than transclude templates such as userboxes, how do you know whether anyone's using them or not? They would need unique text that you could search for.
Steve
Unused userboxes that have been around for a while (i.e. not created in the immediate past) should definitely be deleted (aside from those that fill a pattern, such as Babel langauges/levels where no-one speaks it yet). Are there any arguments for keeping these userboxes? Alternatively, I would also argue for the deletion of all userboxes only used by one person (and the userbox has been around for some time): what's the point of having a template and category for something only one person is going to use? We could just tell the person to substitute it on his/her userpage instead.