Barnstars and more from God of War's userbox days.

We're Doomed!

This user supports userboxes. They probably just need to get outside more often,. You can help save Wikipedia by slapping this user silly, then blocking them forever..

Attack of the Userboxen!!!


Wikipedia:UB/A

Hi God of War! For all your efforts defending POV userboxes, I would like to award you the 'Outspoken Barnstars.' Thanks! Larix 15:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)


End the Userbox Wars edit

For all of those that say POV and political userboxes are divisive and promote factioning of the wikipedia community, I say this. In the last few days, 4 RfCs have been made (2 approved - with Kelly Martin's having to be reconducted because the 275KB of discussion became incivil), 2 RfAr (admin misconduct and wheel waring - both undecided rejected), and 2 series of mass out-of-process deletions. It has shown a much darker side to the community ("The community is not more important than the encyclopedia... Get on with what we're here for, or sod off"), and has forced 2 people to leave (Firebug and Joe Sewell) and has contributed to others, and lead to many leaving the WikiProject. But more than that, it has destroyed all sense of trust and support of those who are empowered. User are making backups of userboxes for fear that admins will delete them. Personal Attacks are rampant and more people are likely to quit if they get dragged down with this userbox things. Deleting people's userboxes is much more harmful to the community than letting them be. People feel they have been censored and that is not what wikipedia is all about. If wikipedia wants to restore a sense of community trust it should allow everyone to have their little box so that no one feels that they are being attacked or censored. Then they can get back to writing the encyclopedia rather than arguing on this message board here.

  • Some of the userbox diatribe copied from User:Ian13.
This user has been awarded a userbox barnstar for their work designing new userboxes.