On 1/6/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
SCZenz wrote:
How about {{User allow fairuse}}? That seems to be against pretty much everything Wikipedia stands for. If we have so many users who think they can *vote* in an unreasonable copyright policy, maybe we need unilateral admin action after all.
I deleted that one myself.
And then, upon a request on my talk page, undeleted it. I'll let the TfD run its course.
I'm in favor of deleting a ton of userboxes, especially those with non-free images, but frankly, I think we should get rid of most of them anyway. (This is not a decree and I'm trying to stay out of the userbox wars myself. Mostly.)
Jimbo,
What's your opinion on the inclusion of user categories (Pro-life, Democrat, etc...) in userboxes? Even if these userboxes are kept, I don't see why these templates should categorize users unless it somehow relates to the encyclopedia (we should keep Babel boxes, for example). I realize you'd like to remain neutral on the general issue of userboxes, but would you support the removal of categories from most userboxes?
Carbonite