[WikiEN-l] kelvSYC's take on userboxes

[John Lee]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>kelvSYC wrote:
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>>geni wrote:
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>>>kelvSYC wrote:
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>>>>* The userbox fad, if left unchecked, may infect other stuff too...
>>>>such as a userbox for "this IP is blocked", "this user is blocked",
>>>>"this user has requested that the page be protected from  movement",
>>>>etc.
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>>>{{subst:test5}}?
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>>What would prevent someone, say, an admin, from rewriting this in 
>>userbox (albeit a large one) form...?  And if a block is appealed,  what
>>would prevent someone from writing their rebuttal in userbox form?
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>The fact that they are limited to editing their talk page? :)
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>Seriously, I don't see why people like userboxes so much. It's a bit
>like the AfD (or was it VfD?) vote counting/reason for deletion boxes...
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>Little boxes, little boxes, all made of ticky-tacky...
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>Here's my solution for all the people who have done more editing to
>userboxes and their userpages than to articles: go start
>http://www.userboxes.com/ and get the hell off of our encyclopedia, you
>morons. [[WP:NOT]] a webhost.
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Now this is where WP:NOT webhost *really* applies - to keep out those 
"hey, this social experiment is fun!" people from the encyclopedia. 
People who prefer to treat Wikipedia like Friendster really have no 
place here.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])