Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Various Userboxes


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: no consensus to delete. BD2412 T 18:01, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Various Userboxes

 * Template:User socialist
 * Template:User engineer
 * Template:User India
 * Template:User Tamil Nadu
 * Template:User World Wars
 * Template:Userbox-2
 * Template:Userbox-2/doc
 * Template:Music

There are various userboxes on Wikiquote. I'm thinking it would be good to limit things to the language userboxes, links to other projects and a few Wikiquote related userboxes. I don't think there is a need to create ones on other topics, but if there is it could be done in userspace rather than template space. — WOSlinker (talk) 16:43, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 13 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment I don't know why "User India" is down twice, but what is the harm if someone wants to say that they are from India?--Abramsky (talk) 17:01, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * That was a mistake, now down just once. No harm but does it need to be done in the template namespace, or can it just be done as a subpage of their userpages? You could end up like wikipedia though with 1000's of userboxes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:11, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: in my opinion, we need more userboxes, not less. ~ DanielTom (talk) 19:19, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, not seeing the harm in allowing this sort of freedom of expression here. -- Cirt (talk) 03:30, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't want to force everyone to live a spartan life, on the other hand the history of Wikimedia projects have seen some odd users whose edits focused on their user page so that we've finally driven to block them out: this dimmed past makes me hesitate to advocate those user template vigorously. Besides my hesitation, I'd ask a simple tech question. If I understand rightly, we need no babel templates anymore because the feature is now provided by a MediaWiki Extention. Has any similar circumstance arisen recently? --Aphaia (talk) 10:10, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not like the "Babel box" because it includes extra self-referential links in its head and foot that I prefer not to include on my user page. (Meta has custom CSS that enables users omit the box if they do not want the clutter.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:49, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment: These userboxen seem useless for the purpose of communication among participants in building the project, but I don't feel strongly about deleting this sort of clutter. I am much more bothered by user pages of people who treat this as a free webhost for self expression or self promotion without making any actual contribution to the project. (One dozen examples: ) ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:49, 23 May 2013 (UTC)