[WikiEN-l] Fraternities, sorotities, WP:NOT#SOCIALSPACE

[Charlotte Webb]

On 9/5/07, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton schrieb:
> > Sounds like a userbox to me, and a fairly harmless one. Is X is the
> > template namespace? If so, I think policy is to move it to the user
> > namespace.
> >
> The templates are in template namespace, while the notices to add them
> are on article talk pages.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Alpha_Kappa_Alpha
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Alpha_Phi_Alpha
>
> Steven Walling schrieb:
> > That's unacceptable imo. I'm all for userboxes (within reason), but saying
> > anyone should (and for new users, it could be misinterpreted as must) add a
> > sorority or frat userbox to their userpage via article talk space is clearly
> > a violation of "not a social space" to me. It has the distinct potential to
> > detract from the central goal, to write a neutral encyclopedia. Not to
> > mention that such articles shouldn't be lorded over by members and alumuni
> > anyway.
> >
> I agree, but didn't want to take any unilateral action.
>
> Adrian

You could move the userbox recommendation text to the WP:FRAT project
page, where it would (incidentally) serve both purposes better, and
provide an extra degree of separation between the two.

Sounds like a decent compromise. Do it.

—C.W.