Forum:Userbox Policy Proposal

One of the things that some other users and I have noticed is that, along with videos, some users have far too many userboxes on their user page. Userboxes are the small boxes that contain small bits of information such as "This user loves Darth Maul" or "This user supports President George W. Bush", etc. I and others would like to see userboxes done away with completely, while I'm sure others want to put as many as they want on their user page In order to try to maintain a standard of quality, I wrote up a proposal for a Userbox Policy that I think is a sound compromise between "get rid of them all" and "put on as many as you want". Please discuss this below. Also, please note that this discussion is going to have a one week limit. Seeing consensus track items drag on for a month is getting pretty old. - President Brandon Rhea  (Pressroom)   (Accomplishments)  00:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Discussion/Consensus

 * Well I agree with this, my page does take a bit to load and it would look much better to have a sub page.TroybAllSpark Quest contribs[[Image:MovieBlack.JPG|10px]] 00:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree as well. Great proposal.&mdash; Darthtyler http://images.wikia.com/swfanon/images/1/18/Scuba_Diver.gif Talk 00:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. I understand several, but 70+? - Solus (Bird of Prey)  02:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't see userboxes as worth bothering to limit, since more often then not they tell more information about the user than the rest of the article and it's not like they suck up bandwidth (except for those stupid GIF ones). -MPK 02:17, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well you dont have to really have to limit them, just put them on a sub page.TroybAllSpark Quest contribs[[Image:MovieBlack.JPG|10px]] 02:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this is going a bit too far. Userpage regulation needs not go this far. Userboxes do not put Star Wars Fanon or its users in any remote form of danger, unless they violate privacy, age, or other policies that are already established. They do not inconvenience users of Star Wars Fanon unless there are so many that the page takes an eternity to load. I must add that userboxes don't usually take long at all to load; it's the GIFs that are a problem. Will we go so far as to ban smileys on talk pages too? Userpages are meant for Wikia users to introduce a little about themselves for first impressions sake, or for organizing one's ideas pertaining to a wiki. Userboxes can do both very effectively and, if done right, in a visually appealing way. I'd like to put a red flag up and ask what real harm YouTube videos, userboxes, etc are really doing before we place a bunch of embargoes. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 02:46, 24 November 2007 (UTC)