[WikiEN-l] Regulation of user pages

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>> I'm annoyed to the userbox controversy being consistently called
>> "Great Userbox War". IT was not a war. Wikipedia is not a battlefield.
> 
> It's called sarcasm.  I know it's hard to convey over the Internet, but 
> I did honestly expect the Gratuitous Capitalization, not to mention the 
> juxtaposition of the words "userbox" and "war", would in this case have 
> made it clear enough.  If you have any suggestions for making it even 
> more over-the-top, please do tell.
> 
> In the fact of it, you are, of course, right.  It's not a war, and 
> calling it such is particularly ironic given that we do have actual 
> real-world armed conflicts (the Israel/Lebanon one comes to mind, as 
> well as the situation in Kosovo) spilling over to Wikipedia.  It's a 
> rather chilling thought that some of the people involved in those edit 
> wars might actually be fighting the same battles off-wiki with real guns 
> and bombs.
> 

I can imagine the headlines:

"OSAMA BIN LADEN CAPTURED WHILE EDITING WIKIPEDIA FROM INTERNET CAFE"

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