[WikiEN-l] Regulation of user pages (was: Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death)

[Fred Bauder]

On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:

> Instead, perhaps what we should do is establish a rule that all  
> pages in
> the User: namespace must be somehow related to the project and not
> contrary to its goals, and must, if necessary, explain how they are  
> so;
> if not, they may and should be speedily deleted.
>
> This doesn't mean you couldn't describe yourself on your user  
> page.  But
> if the page didn't include _any_ information actually relevant to the
> project, such as your contributions to Wikipedia, areas of interest,
> useful skills, etc., it would be unsuitable and speediable.

To me this is just one more bunch of rules to enforce. We have so far  
to go in presenting usable verifiable information from reputable  
source that getting after inappropriate user pages seems out of  
priority.

Fred