From User talk Jimbo Wales 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 From WikiEN l The current situation with these things being in the main Template namespace and promoted as if healthy and normal in the Wikipedia namespace is that they are damaging to our culture They are attracting the wrong sort of people and giving newcomers the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian That s why they need to go Not to censor people s self expression but to make it clear that as a whole the community considers these things to be divisive and inappropriate Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia com Mon Feb 20 19 34 13 UTC 2006 class boilerplate style float center width 100 background ee9000 border solid darkblue 3px margin 1px From Wikipedia Userboxes Beliefs It should be noted that use of such userboxes is strongly discouraged at Wikipedia and it is likely that very soon all these userboxes will be deleted or moved to userspace soon Their use and creation is not recommended at this time Jimmy Wales Mon Feb 20 18 01 UTC