On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Charles Matthews < [email protected]> wrote:
> George Herbert wrote: > > Your comment ( "(a) Wikipedia pages relate to the mission, not > > anyone's felt need for self-expression" ) goes, or seems to imply (and > > is being read that way by several of us...) much further. I don't > > think there's support or a consensus for much further. Wikipedia > > isn't a blog, social networking site, or user homepage - but it is a > > community, and a working environment (volunteer as it is), and as > > David points out, people like to decorate their cubes (in whatever > > form cubes take). This is normal human behavior and not something to > > be arbitrarily squashed. > Well then, please read in the on-topic fashion - if done in such a way > as to "lower the tone", I recall, userpages are not really welcome to > contain just anything. But the misreading of userspace=user page here is > vexing. The problem comes, re blogging, when people really do "blog" on > dedicated user pages, in violation of WP:USER, and apparently stand on > their rights to do that. > Ok. I am not trying to be needlessly confrontational here, your earlier comments seemed to imply something else. What you're describing doesn't seem to me to be all that prevalent on en.wp now. I am open to examples and discussion to demonstrate a pattern requiring action. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
