It seemed like you may not have seen this (long, sorry) note I wrote about this (even though I linked it from the edit summary). I hope you'll read it, and let me know what your thoughts are regarding this. The re-wording was not made without consideration, or without discussion; I tried to start as much discussion as I could, without much sucesss. Thanks for your attention. JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
That's why I proposed the changed wording that I did; a group of Users who want to work on our coverage of the Canadian Armed Forces is a good and useful thing, and something that the group-forming abilities of User templates can assist with. A group of users who merely appreciate the Canadian Armed Forces, but who may or may not make use of that appreciation in connection with the 'pedia is harmed by the group-forming abilities of User templates. I look forward to your response, either here, on my talk page, or on the talk page of the template itself. If I do not get a response within a week of posting this message, I will assume you accept the proposed wording change, and I will reapply it. Feel free to revert it again if I do, but I urge you to respond to this message as well. Thanks again for your work on the 'pedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I like your historical point of view but a fondamental principle of Wikipedia is:
Guidelines are a product of community consensus, as can be seen at
Wikipedia:How_to_create_policy#Guidelines_for_creating_policies_and_guidelines and
Wikipedia:Consensus. The communinty has evolved, the babel boxes have become userboxes and we are using them differently now. Therefore, without some consensus, I feel the major change you made to the userbox was hasty. Changing a "I support the army" to "I want to write about the cdn army" is a conceptual leap presently for most of the userbox users. I recommend a new userbox as another option for users interested in the project. On a different note, I personally feel your statement is implied and doesn't need to be spelled out... it just makes the userbox too wordy
Of course I'm here to write and edit about the subjects I care about!
Lostkiwi 01:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
It seemed like you may not have seen this (long, sorry) note I wrote about this (even though I linked it from the edit summary). I hope you'll read it, and let me know what your thoughts are regarding this. The re-wording was not made without consideration, or without discussion; I tried to start as much discussion as I could, without much sucesss. Thanks for your attention. JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
That's why I proposed the changed wording that I did; a group of Users who want to work on our coverage of the Canadian Armed Forces is a good and useful thing, and something that the group-forming abilities of User templates can assist with. A group of users who merely appreciate the Canadian Armed Forces, but who may or may not make use of that appreciation in connection with the 'pedia is harmed by the group-forming abilities of User templates. I look forward to your response, either here, on my talk page, or on the talk page of the template itself. If I do not get a response within a week of posting this message, I will assume you accept the proposed wording change, and I will reapply it. Feel free to revert it again if I do, but I urge you to respond to this message as well. Thanks again for your work on the 'pedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 18:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I like your historical point of view but a fondamental principle of Wikipedia is:
Guidelines are a product of community consensus, as can be seen at
Wikipedia:How_to_create_policy#Guidelines_for_creating_policies_and_guidelines and
Wikipedia:Consensus. The communinty has evolved, the babel boxes have become userboxes and we are using them differently now. Therefore, without some consensus, I feel the major change you made to the userbox was hasty. Changing a "I support the army" to "I want to write about the cdn army" is a conceptual leap presently for most of the userbox users. I recommend a new userbox as another option for users interested in the project. On a different note, I personally feel your statement is implied and doesn't need to be spelled out... it just makes the userbox too wordy
Of course I'm here to write and edit about the subjects I care about!
Lostkiwi 01:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)