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User talk:Jimbo Wales/archivedecember14

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I've declared talk page bankruptcy and cleared everything out.

I wonder if you might consider...

I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars.

Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project. They are attractive to the wrong kinds of people, and they give visitors the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian.

I think rather than us having to go through a mass deletion (which is what is likely to happen if the userbox fad doesn't go away), it will be better to simply change the culture, one person at a time. Will you help me?--Jimbo Wales 10:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Deletionists

Is there somewhere you can see the number of new articles you've created, as opposed to edits?

Edits and spelling fixes are important to the site, but there are people who don't really add anything to the site, apart from a comma here and there and deleting important information.

I refer to the deletion of the internet meme Lee Hotti recently. Just because people are ignorant doesn't mean the Lee Hotti incident was very important in internet history. There was an article in CNN which described its importance. The deletionists on here are turning this site into a joke. Rogerthat 02:41, 21 January 2006 (UTC) 

:I don't really see your point. There are many different ways people can help out in this site, and creating new articles is only one of them. Even minor spelling fixes help improve the quality of the entire site. Since people aren't paid to edit, or ordered around by a boss, they all do what they wish to do. *Dan T.* 02:45, 21 January 2006 (UTC)