Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes/Archive 2016

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So, I'm new here (well, old to Wikipedia, but new to some Wikipedian-specific culture like userboxes, anyway!) I really, really don't want to jump into something I don't understand and start a shitstorm, so I'll try to phrase this as generically (and as directly-relevant-to-this-WikiProject) as I can:

One of the first things on Wikipedia:Userboxes, under “Potentially divisive words,” is an admonition to avoid “negative verb phrases which can be potentially divisive,” specifically mentioning words like ‘dislikes, despises, hates, and loathes.’ However, it seems like a *huge* portion of, at least, Wikipedia:Userboxes/Grammar fails this test; of particular interest to me, the “Singular 'they' / gender neutrality” sections:

• “Some people are 'they'. Get over it!” (In bright red, to boot!)
• “This user could not care less about the use of gender-neutral language.”
• “Regarding gender, neutrality is vernacular. Patriarchy is archaic.”
• “This user thinks invented gender-neutral pronouns are ugly and stupid, and opposes their use in all situations.”

I specifically endeavoured to include examples from both, uh, ‘sides’ of the debate. The point here is that there's content being advertised on the Userboxes pages which seem to directly fail the kindness-guidelines (which are pretty good guidelines, I think, as a newcomer! Well-worded, and positively-minded.) at the top of the page.

If people want this content on their userpages, like, that's fine; but should they really be *listed* as examples of Good Userboxes that You Should Add to Your Page? /=

ELLIOTTCABLE (talk) 08:16, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

You'll find that people will argue that a guideline is just that, and not policy. (And even then people like to push the boundaries of policy all the time) Userbox infractions, like many things here on WP, are taken on a case-by-case basis. They have to reported first, for anything to happen, then they have to be reviewed by an admin or the community for any changes or actions to occur. Cheers - ^theWOLFchild 15:31, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

It looks like the entire suite of xx-0 babel templates (including ones like {{User es-0}}, {{User st-0}}) have been nominated for deletion on the grounds that the categories they were formerly used to populate were deleted long ago. Also affected are {{User cu-N}}, {{User fb-3}} and {{User fb-4}}. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Templates for deleted categories. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 13:48, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Think we should go ahead and remove blocked users from the list of members? Most of them seem to be socks and are not likely to be unblocked, especially because most of the blocks happened a while back. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 20:19, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Sure, why not... - Ahunt (talk) 20:26, 18 April 2016 (UTC)