[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures (was: cancelation of the deletion review of the satanism userbox)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/5/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> The "cutesie sigs" problems seems to be like the userbox problem all
> over again... once again you have a bunch of users who seem to be
> treating Wikipedia like another Myspace or LiveJournal, and another
> bunch of editors/admins who are so offended by this that they insist
> on taking draconian action against the first group...

You were going okay until you got to "draconian action". I just don't
see how editing  talk pages in small increments that make it easier
for everybody to edit can be described as "draconian".  That's, at
most, a minimal bit of good housekeeping.