Wikipedia talk:Proposed template and category usage policy

message: This is just another anti-UBX proposal-of-the-month flavor. I'd do the merge myself but I'm so against it. Besides, Wikipedia:Userfying userboxes is dead in the water. John Reid 08:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Do not merge this proposal or "kill" this page. It stands on its own merits. I see you ended the debate on the other proposal (after it had a month or so to get comments) but please allow this one to gather comments before "killing" it. What should be dead in the water is the Userbox warring that takes up time, effort and resources from the main goal of editing an encyclopedia. More and more people are coming to this conclusion, and it's time for them to speak out on this issue in a clear, concise way. Nhprman 20:28, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please kill this page 

message: and even  really aren't encyclopedic either; the same goes for :Category:Imposters of Willy on Wheels to :Category:Pages containing IPA.  Why shouldn't they be moved into a meta space? I don't even think babel userboxes should be in template space, but like that is going to happen. Kotepho 21:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But they are concerned with the functioning, maintenance and defence of Wikipedia. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 00:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So?  They should only be in the main spaces if they are useful to readers. Kotepho 00:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you talking about? Category and Template space are not the same as Main (or article) space. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 01:48, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Maintenance templates and categories

message: :Sign with #~~~~
===Endorse===
#I endorse this proposal. It's time for a clear, concise and easily understood policy on Userboxes that will end the foolish Userbox delete/keep/revert war that has been going on for months now. This does it, and should become official policy. Nhprman 20:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poll 

message: #I endorse this proposal. It's time for a clear, concise and easily understood policy on Userboxes that will end the foolish Userbox delete/keep/revert war that has been going on for months now. This does it, and should become official policy. Nhprman 20:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Endorse

message: #It is nice to see an implicit admission that this is not now policy; but it is not, and no reason is given that it should ever  be. As it stands, this is ill-defined. What does "related to the encyclopedia" mean? One editor will, in good faith, exclude  and  tags; another will call everything done here related to the encyclopedia. These are extremes, but there is a large amount of middle ground. 
#Probably much too broad. Given a middling definition in the spectrum above, it would be far more accordant with WP:ENC to declare that Templates and categories that are visible in article space must be related to the encyclopedia. Septentrionalis 04:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Oppose

message: # While I stronly support userboxes, I'd be happy for them to migrate out of the main template space as part of a compromise that ends their deletion.  Categories on the other hand are a more difficult issue.  In general I think they should be kept. Eluchil404 17:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutral/Abstain

message: Tagged as "rejected" (see above). -- Omniplex 01:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rejected