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failed proposal.
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Principles:
A. Fundamental to Wikipedia is a unified community. The current userbox debate has split the community for too long of a time now, breaking up the community's unity and taking the Wikipedians in the community away from what they are meant to do- help us build a better encyclopedia. Both the inclusionists and deletionists have had their say in the matter, but neither can reach a consensus on what to do. Seeing this, a moderate proposal, which will attempt to both please and unify both sides, must come into play.
B. The Template: namespace must have a neutral point of view. However, removing all userboxes from a centralized location, the Template: namespace, has caused too much split in the community to be considered a viable option. Therefore, a new centralized location, one which will be declared to allow points of view, is the best option for the reunification of Wikipedia.
C. The community has already shown that they support a compromise between the two sides as described above. While Wikipedia may not be a democracy, the community itself keeps us running; if the community wishes for a compromise to reunify itself, it must be attained.
Userbox Policy:
Implementation:
Current tally:
Support: 115 (62.8%)
Conditional Support: 8 (4.3%)
Oppose: 60 (32.7%)
{{user foo}}
will be changed to {{userbox:foo}}. Both these tasks could easily be carried out by a bot –
Gurch 15:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
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Discuss on the
talk page. Suggested amendments should be made on the talk page, and only included if consensus is reached.
This is a
failed proposal.
Consensus for its implementation was not established within a reasonable period of time. If you want to revive discussion, please use
the talk page or initiate a thread at
the village pump. |
Principles:
A. Fundamental to Wikipedia is a unified community. The current userbox debate has split the community for too long of a time now, breaking up the community's unity and taking the Wikipedians in the community away from what they are meant to do- help us build a better encyclopedia. Both the inclusionists and deletionists have had their say in the matter, but neither can reach a consensus on what to do. Seeing this, a moderate proposal, which will attempt to both please and unify both sides, must come into play.
B. The Template: namespace must have a neutral point of view. However, removing all userboxes from a centralized location, the Template: namespace, has caused too much split in the community to be considered a viable option. Therefore, a new centralized location, one which will be declared to allow points of view, is the best option for the reunification of Wikipedia.
C. The community has already shown that they support a compromise between the two sides as described above. While Wikipedia may not be a democracy, the community itself keeps us running; if the community wishes for a compromise to reunify itself, it must be attained.
Userbox Policy:
Implementation:
Current tally:
Support: 115 (62.8%)
Conditional Support: 8 (4.3%)
Oppose: 60 (32.7%)
{{user foo}}
will be changed to {{userbox:foo}}. Both these tasks could easily be carried out by a bot –
Gurch 15:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
reply
Discuss on the
talk page. Suggested amendments should be made on the talk page, and only included if consensus is reached.