[WikiEN-l] User:UBX

MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 21:04:55 UTC 2007


It's probably a good idea for your bot to get approval to do that.
Basically, they're already listed in a central place through the
Wikipedia:userboxes page.
Are you doing this to make the typing easier?

Mgm


On 2/22/07, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/22/07, Jeremy Cushman <mets501wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I created the User:UBX account solely to host userboxes migrated via the
> > Userbox Migration (formerly called The German Solution).  I have been
> > using
> > my bot, User:MetsBot, to migrate many useboxes to a subpage of
> > User:UBX.  I
> > started by migrating only clearly controversial userboxes, but then
> moved
> > into userboxes about interests, etc, which was met by opposition from
> > some.
> > Just to be clear, isn't the consensus that we're migrating basically all
> > userboxes which cannot directly help the project, and keeping ones such
> as
> > languages, education level and expertise, WikiProject affiliations, time
> > zones, locations, and a few others?  Should a userbox like "This user
> was
> > a
> > boy scout" really not be migrated?
> > Thanks.
> > --Mets501
>
>
> Where there's a consensus to move the userboxes, I don't see any harm in
> keeping a central library. Even if you don't move them into that
> userspace,
> you could have redirects pointing out *from* User:UBX to the actual
> template/userpages involved.
>
> As far as where the consensus is, I haven't touched or looked at anything
> involving the userbox wars for quite some time. I suppose, if everything
> is
> located in or pointed at from the userspace of User:UBX, then you might be
> able to make a template which accepts userbox names as a parameter and
> calls
> the relevant subpages.
>
> But not sure if other people will think that's a good idea. ;)
>
> -Luna
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