Geoff Burling wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Haukur ?orgeirsson wrote:
If a user has made enough edits to articles that they are able to move pages and edit semi-protected pages, they have contributed enough that they should be able to create a userpage. Userpages should be reserved for those who are writing the encyclopedia; WP:NOT a webhost.
I think this would have unintended negative consequences. When I register an account at a new Wikimedia project one of the first edits I make is usually to my userpage to let people know where I'm coming from and where I can most easily be contacted.
One useful clue, in fact, to the intents of a new user is how many edits pass before she/he does create a userpage. If a new user makes more than a few (say 10 or 20 edits) without creating a userpage, it raises doubts in my mind whether that person wants to be part of a community devoted to creaing an encyclopedia -- or has just dropped in to agitate for a specific POV, or to cause trouble.
I suspect that I'm not the only one to understand this behavior in this way, for a few months ago Uncle G refused to create a user page to combat this assumption. (However, when I've asked the occasionally newbie who doesn't have a user page to create one, I've never been refused; I'd say that Uncle G was needlessly fighting a battle that didn't need to be fought.)
Geoff
I think I made a few hundred edits without creating a userpage.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])