[WikiEN-l] Regulation of user pages

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 7/29/06, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> You do have a point.  On the other hand, people (including Jimbo)
> obviously _do_ care about inappropriate user pages, as evidenced by the
> Great Userbox Wars of '06.  Since this seems unlikely to change, a rule
> that made dealing with such pages simpler and more effective could in
> fact free up more time for actually building the encyclopedia.
>
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> Ilmari Karonen
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I'm annoyed to the userbox controversy being consistently called
"Great Userbox War".
IT was not a war. Wikipedia is not a battlefield.

Such terms only invite trolling and makign people interested in
arguing for the sake of arguing to join the project