[WikiEN-l] Userboxes

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 21:16, Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 1/20/08, Josh Gordon <user.jpgordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah. An easy solution would just be to personalize the message: instead
> > of "you have new messages", it could say "You have new messages at [[User
> > talk:Jpgordon]]".
>
> That would be a solution to "omg poeple keep doing this nasty thing
> that we've banned but we just can't enforce it!!" It sounds like there
> isn't even consensus that this behaviour is prohibited. If there is a
> policy against it, and the policy is failing, then we can look at
> technical solutions.

Since policy is descriptive rather than prescriptive, if it's "failing" then 
nothing needs to be done about it at all.

Wikipedia would be a better place if people "got" what policy is all about.

-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>