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Revision as of 02:12, 3 January 2006

A request for comment has been filed regarding Kelly Martin's deletion of a number of userbox templates, and Misplaced Pages:Proposed policy on userboxes has been created to foster consensus on what the right approach to userboxes is. Your input on these matters is appreciated.

A request for arbitration has been filed regarding Kelly Martin and Snowspinner (Phil Sandifer)'s deletion of a number of userbox templates as well as blocks of other users against policy. Your input on the matter is appreciated.


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This WikiProject has been created per much support for cleaning up and creating a project to help organise Misplaced Pages:Userboxes and related templates, categories and Misplaced Pages: space.

We currently need urgent assistance in ensuring all current userboxes do not break Misplaced Pages policy, to ensure action against them is not taken. Please see the Current tasks section to help.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to organise, expand and improve all Misplaced Pages's userboxes. We want to make it easy for users to make their own, and to find others, as well as create a standard for all userboxes, including a global prefix and image

Initial interests are to help change to a global prefix, reform all userboxes to such standards, re-catagorise, and maintain.

The need for organisation lead to 32 people joining the project within 2 days of it being founded.

Goals

Anyone can assist, we currently aim to:

  1. Create a well-balanced page and sub-page system at Misplaced Pages:Userboxes to assist users in designing and categorising userboxes, as well as find others and incorporate boxes into their page.
  2. Gradually transfer all boxes to the standard of User as a userbox prefix.
  3. Ensure all userboxes are within Misplaced Pages policy.
  4. Organise all userboxes, either finding a place for them in Misplaced Pages:Userboxes, removing duplicates/orphaned userboxes.
  5. Organising categories, removing duplicates or unrequired ones.
  6. Slowly expand userboxes carefully - Some ideas!

Please raise any other issues which need to be identified on the talk page.

Current tasks

As a matter of urgency:

  • Remove all fair use images from userboxes. Their usage violates fair-use guidelines.
    • '"Fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. They should never be used on templates (including stub templates and navigation boxes) or on user pages."
      • Replace with text or another suitable image.
  • Subst: out all usages of the generic userbox templates. Their usage violates Misplaced Pages:Avoid using meta-templates.
    • If you're unable to cleanup resulting code, please post information on the template on the talk page.

These are the tasks which need to be completed quickly to prevent more useful userboxes being lost at TfD or otherwise.

Others:

  • All the 'Userbox' prefixes have been delt with (besides templates for creation), so we need to move over any stray boxes we notice without any prefix (See guide below).
  • Duplicates need to be merged, choose the most suitable, turning the one for removal into a redirect, and following the guide below from step 2.

Guide to moving userboxes

We are currently working on changing the prefixes of all known userboxes to 'User', for example {{User en}}. If you wish to help please follow the following guidelines for one userbox at a time.

  1. For any userbox without a 'User' prefix, move the template to a title with 'User' as the prefix (which will create a redirect from the original template);
  2. Go back to the redirect page and check what links to it. Visit every page which appears in that list, and change the template link on that page to the new name;
  3. When all links to the redirect page have been removed, then it is time to delete the redirect (delete yourself if admin, otherwise request here - Deletion can be preformed as orphan and duplicate template).

Relevant Votes for Deletion

It is important to voice your views now, as it is likely these will set future trends:

Participants

Please sign up! This will encourage others to do so too... The following list is sorted alphabetically according to the display name. Please rank your name onto the list alphabetically instead of adding it directly to the bottom. If you are an administrator, and are prepared to use your powers, please add a note saying so. Thanks

  1. 1001001 21:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  2. Adam1213 14:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. AdelaMae 09:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  4. --Akako|☎ 21:23, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  5. Alf 14:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  6. AlMac| is not good at creating new stuff (would like to have icon for major computer applications, such as ERP, where we could alter the text to mention our particular speciality within that application (BPCS in my case)) so tries to teach instead.
  7. Ali K 07:16, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  8. Andux 13:15, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  9. Armor Nick 19:01, 30 December 2005
  10. Asdquefty I need more userboxes...
  11. →AzaToth 18:21, 26 December 2005 (UTC) I, who destoyed it in the first place, might help :)
  12. Blarneytherinosaur Userbox user extraordinaire 05:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  13. UK Bourbons3 19:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  14. Brian New Zealand 23:19, 25 December 2005 (UTC) help where I can
  15. Bugs5382 08:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  16. CaladSigilon, Prince of Userboxes 06:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
  17. Cernen, Supporter of Userboxes, resident userbox whore. 23:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  18. CG 14:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  19. Cjmarsicano 21:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC) -- This is going to be fun
  20. Commander Keane 15:18, 30 December 2005 (UTC). Admin and Bot services
  21. Template:DaGizza/Sg 10:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
  22. Daykart 02:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC) --Tooting my own horn, I was the one who suggested the wikiproject.
  23. D-Day 20:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC) -- I'll join. I happen to like user boxes.
  24. File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano 12:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC) well we're allowed to boast now so I was the first one here and you're all jonnie-come-latelies!
  25. Fang Aili 22:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC) -- Why not? Userboxes are fun.
  26. FireFox 13:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC) - Admin
  27. Funky Monkey 01:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  28. --God_of War 21:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Everyone has the right to their own userboxes - even if their box in unpopular.
  29. Grand Edgemaster Talk 18:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC) - Wow, these tasks could ***really*** be done by a bot.
  30. Gurch 13:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
  31. Herostratus 17:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  32. IanID:540053 12:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC) - Founder and Project manager
  33. Ifnord 04:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  34. Jamdav86 09:44, 23 December 2005 (UTC) Since you're all boasting, I sixthed the project and encouraed it to start.
  35. — Jeff | (talk) | 06:14, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Let's organize the chaos a little.
  36. Joe Sewell 03:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
  37. Kickboy 01:15, December 23, 2005 (UTC) - Already started doing this before group was formed :)
  38. karmafist Admin
  39. :: Keith Greer :: 20:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  40. Kmweber Originator of the Sports Fans userboxes... Kurt Weber 16:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  41. Larix 17:38, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  42. LBMixPro 12:44, 31 December 2005 (UTC) Admin
  43. lcarsdata --Lcarsdata 20:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  44. Lee S. Svoboda 22:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC) I was hoping for something like this!
  45. Mike Tigas 00:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  46. mdmanser 05:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
  47. Mistress Selina Kyle 23:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  48. User:Morgan695 20:24, December 28, 2005 (UTC).
  49. Nige 15:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
  50. ihsalo ✉ 21:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  51. R6MaY89 — I added Template:User_Delaware!--R6MaY89 19:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  52. Richard0612 This is a fantastic idea, working on logo and non-ISO languages project.
  53. RaptorX-- I'm in! --RaptorX 10:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
  54. Redux 21:02, 30 December 2005 — Admin
  55. Seancdaug 22:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
  56. shanedidona --Shanedidona 15:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
  57. Shell 03:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC) -- I want to add some boxes.
  58. SoothingR 20:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC) yeah baby !
  59. SWD316 22:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC) I'll help in areas I can.
  60. TantalumTelluride 02:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  61. TCorp 11:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC) (I hope the mass deleting stops)
  62. Tetraminoe 22:41, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
  63. Think Fast 21:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
  64. Tim 00:38, 26 December 2005 (UTC) - wooyay, userboxes.
  65. Titoxd 22:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC) - make sure to look at User:Titoxd/UserPage! Titoxd 22:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
  66. ulayiti (talk) 22:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Staffing

Since this project was formed, it has been mainly organised by IanID:540053, however support in running this project is greatly needed. Anyone who is prepared to help maintain this page and the objectives and projects, and would like to become a staff member, should leave me a message.

Assistance and Support

Should you need any help or assistance in any of your work, you are welcome to leave a message on the talk page of this article. Alternately, or for more specific help, it is probably best to leave a message on the talk page of the most appropriate sub-page of the Userboxes article. You are also welcome to contact me (Ian13) at my talk page about maintenance, helping out on this page, or anything else.

Templates

These templates can be used in a variety of places to identify their inclusion in the project.

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{{WP:UBS}}
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