On 19/01/2008, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com wrote:
It's not about them wasting their time, as that is not for us to decide. It's not the way the community expects the hosting services provided by Wikipedia to be used. It's also not what we want people to associate Wikipedia with. That, in my opinion, is the point.
German Wikipedia got hard-arsed on them and restricted them to Babel and location templates.
I think the big cull on en:wp came from ones that were obviously divisive or were being used for organised POV-pushing, i.e. things that were actively harming the project. Just being a dead weight on the project wasn't considered sufficient harm to kill the damn things off.
James Forrester is, by the way, *very sorry indeed* for inventing the things. I bet he wishes he'd invented something nicer, like herpes.
- d.