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Revision as of 04:55, 6 February 2006

Let's do it!! Ashibaka tock 02:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes! Then we can finally have a rationale for deleting attack boxes. — Ilyanep (Talk) 02:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• I'm all for this. Template: and Category: have always been held to a higher standard than anything else (eg. compare the number of pages that have "fuck" on them in Template: and Category: vs. User: and mainspace). People have always been able to put (almost) anything on their user pages. Few people want to censor others, Template: just isn't the place for it. --Interiot 02:45, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I think there should be an addition to the policy that people should only create userboxes if they intend to put them somewhere on their own user pages; this would prevent Template:User pedophile and Template:User ku klux from happening again. But if this seems too nit-picky I guess not including it is okay too. Ashibaka tock 02:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

People should of course only create pages within their own user space. Creating pages in someone else's user space is already frowned upon. --bainer (talk) 03:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I like this common-sense proposal. I would also like to see some thought given to getting Misplaced Pages:Userboxes out of the Misplaced Pages namespace; it's another way the boxes may appear to be "officially sanctioned." —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:37, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

This proposal would eliminate the need for the Proposed policy on userboxes, but I don't think there's any harm in keeping a centralised list of userboxes, as long as it is made clear that they are created and maintained by individual users, and do not necessarily represent the views of the community. --bainer (talk) 03:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

As for Misplaced Pages:Userboxes, I think it's okay that it's not an official thing. Personal essays can be written on Misplaced Pages namespace, too. But if a large number of people share your opinion, we could move it to Meta (which is another place for unofficial ideas), although this would be chaos for actually providing a list of userboxes. Ashibaka tock 03:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes in userspace

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not. But, in the case it does become policy, I've reserved User:Userboxes, so that userboxes may be placed in that userspace if needed. Ideally, what I would like to see is a dedicated Userbox: namespace, which could then be invoked by something like {{u:box name}}. The Userbox namespace would be treated like userspace; users would have the freedom there to do pretty much whatever they wanted as long as it didn't violate core Foundation policies (or Florida/US law - e.g. copyrights). Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 04:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)