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
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This is a proposal to regulate the placement of userboxes under the user and template namespaces.
A similar proposal has been discussed at Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll (poll ended on March 8, 2006); that proposal suggests basically keeping the userboxes related to editing interests, expertise, wiki-projects, etc. but moving all userboxes declaring a point of view or extra-wiki affiliation to the user namespace—however, its wording limits transclusion of userboxes created as user subpages.
Only userboxes which provide a clear benefit to the encyclopedia should be placed in the template namespace. This includes boxes which state a user's editing interests, skills or expertise, WikiProject affiliations, etc., and userbox creation templates such as Template:Userbox. All other userboxes belong in user space.
Users may create any userbox templates in their own user space, including those expressing humor, POV, or extra-wiki affiliation, as long as they comply with
Wikipedia policies and guidelines; however, it is recommended that users only create templates that they plan to use themselves. Userboxes created as user
subpages can be
transcluded just like any other template (e.g., {{User:Example/MyUserbox}}
or {{
subst:User:Example/MyUserbox}}
).
Users may opt to migrate their userboxes right now, although this is not a policy. They can do this by moving templates they created into their own userspace, and editing the necessary pages on Wikipedia:Userboxes.
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. |
This is a proposal to regulate the placement of userboxes under the user and template namespaces.
A similar proposal has been discussed at Wikipedia:Userbox policy poll (poll ended on March 8, 2006); that proposal suggests basically keeping the userboxes related to editing interests, expertise, wiki-projects, etc. but moving all userboxes declaring a point of view or extra-wiki affiliation to the user namespace—however, its wording limits transclusion of userboxes created as user subpages.
Only userboxes which provide a clear benefit to the encyclopedia should be placed in the template namespace. This includes boxes which state a user's editing interests, skills or expertise, WikiProject affiliations, etc., and userbox creation templates such as Template:Userbox. All other userboxes belong in user space.
Users may create any userbox templates in their own user space, including those expressing humor, POV, or extra-wiki affiliation, as long as they comply with
Wikipedia policies and guidelines; however, it is recommended that users only create templates that they plan to use themselves. Userboxes created as user
subpages can be
transcluded just like any other template (e.g., {{User:Example/MyUserbox}}
or {{
subst:User:Example/MyUserbox}}
).
Users may opt to migrate their userboxes right now, although this is not a policy. They can do this by moving templates they created into their own userspace, and editing the necessary pages on Wikipedia:Userboxes.