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, I have a question. You think most userboxes should be deleted, and so do a bunch of other people, including me at this point. But it's clearly not a supermajority, so almost all userboxes are going to be kept if people stay within process (the one above may be an exception). In fact, as we've seen, there are a lot of people who want to change policy about fairuse images in user space for the sake of the boxes; maybe they could even change *that* we followed the usual consensus-based procedure for adopting policy.
I've become more and more convinced that the inmates are indeed running the asylum on these issues, so my question to you is: what do you think we (as ordinary users who agree with your non-decree) should do?
SCZenz