That's not a solution, that's just a codification of the assertion that userboxes, aside from everything else on a user page, needs to be "practical". If you are going to apply these to userboxes, why not apply them to images in userpages? Why not apply them to all text?
I still haven't seen why recreational userbox use is something so "special" it needs separate guidelines for it. I agree they are ugly, and that in some instances people use them to find other like-minded people to vote on things. However I have yet to see a sound citation of policy which indicates that either of these are unequivocally against the rules in all circumstances.
This whole affair looks like a pet peeve which has gotten ridiculously out of hand, to the detriment of all involved.
FF
On 1/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Here's my solution to the userbox problem.
Any "userbox" (aka. babel-like template) which does not
- Inform the reader about the languages (human) that one can understand
and edit in
- Inform the reader about the languages (computer) that one is
proficient in to some degree and can use those skills constructively towards editing
- Inform the reader about what browser/operating system they use so that
they can be consulted wrt. technical issues with the wiki
- Inform the reader about what musical instruments they play so that
Free music can be recorded for articles
- Inform the reader about what WikiProjects they are part of so that
other editors can consult them about articles related to that wikiproject
should be deleted. WikiProject Userboxes should ensure that userboxes remain as things which are useful to other editors, in the task of building an encyclopedia. Such silly things as "This user is a dickbrain with no respect for consensus, policy, copyright issues, or the task of writing an encyclopedia" should be deleted, and the user banned for wasting everyone's time and bandwidth.
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
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