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This user exists for no other purpose than to store User Boxes that may be controversial and subject to deletion by overzealous admins even in the User Space. If this user is posting in the Article Space then someone has hacked/cracked it. See below and the talk page for more information.

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There seems to be some huge debate about user boxes right now. Even after moving nearly ALL the User Boxes to the User Space some Admins seem to still feel that some boxes should be deleted, and/or any reference to those boxes (like lists of User Boxes) should be deleted. The only safe boxes seem to be in the user pages of those who created them.

I do not subscribe to the 'lets all be vanilla' attitude of some here at Wikipedia. People have bias', beliefs, prejudices, and their own views. If I am having a discussion about an article on Evolution, it would be nice to know if the person I am debating with believes that the Bible is literal truth or that the Earth is 6,000 years old. It would be nice if Admins knew that as well.

This is a place for All User Boxes from superfluous to controversial, from inane to very political, from left to right to upside down.

[edit] Links to Relevant Information

• Wikipedia Userboxes Current home of the 'vanilla' User Boxes that survived the tender mercies of overzealous Admins. Unless your User Box is hoplessly banal don't even bother submitting it here.
• Userboxes Talk Page After reading this you may understand why I made this User Page.
• New Userboxes Talk Page ditto.
• Users with custom User Boxes on thier User Pages

[edit] Adding to This Page

Feel free to add any template to this page as follows:

• User:UserBox/TemplateName

[edit] Submission Guidelines

• Note that Userbox is a blocked sockpuppet so mind the the capitalization.
• Keep in mind that even though this is a User Page and supposedly free from (most) admin oversite deliberately inflamatory User Boxes will be deleted by someone (if not an Admin then me). This includes Flaming, Trolling, Vulgarity, and Personal Attacks.
• Please don't add a category to your template unless it serves some useful purpose to Wikipedia (like languages, education, or expertise). If you want to find who has what template just go to the template and select "what links here" from the side menu.
• Note that people who use CRT monitors may have difficulty seeing certain text on certain colors. Namely seeing the blue text of a Wiki-link on a black or dark background. People with LCD monitors sometimes forget this.

[edit] How to design the box

For ease of use, userboxes are made using maker-templates that have a number of parameters. Once the maker-template is saved, it is automatically transformed to HTML.

[edit] Userbox types

{{Userbox
  |border-c = #000
  |border-s = 1
  |id-c     = #fff
  |id-s     = 12
  |id-fc    = #000
  |info-c   = #039
  |info-s   = 8
  |info-fc  = #fff
  |id       = ID
  |info     = info box content
}}

{{Userbox-r
  |border-c = #000
  |border-s = 1
  |id-c     = #fff
  |id-s     = 12
  |id-fc    = #000
  |info-c   = #039
  |info-s   = 8
  |info-fc  = #fff
  |id       = ID
  |info     = info box content
}}

{{Userbox-2
  |border-c = #000
  |border-s = 1
  |id1-c    = #fff
  |id1-s    = 12
  |id1-fc   = #000
  |id2-c    = #000
  |id2-s    = 12
  |id2-fc   = #fff
  |info-c   = #039
  |info-s   = 8
  |info-fc  = #fff
  |id1      = ID 1
  |id2      = ID 2
  |info     = info box content
}}

{{Userbox-m
  |border-c = #000
  |border-s = 1
  |id-c     = #fff
  |id-s     = 12
  |id-fc    = #000
  |id       = ID
}}

[edit] Index of All Boxes on This Page

[edit] Political

User Box	Code
' This user worships the goddess of radio.	{{User:UserBox/RandiRhodes}}
SPOINK! This User likes sticking a sharp stick into the soft white underbelly of the right wing scheme machine.	{{User:UserBox/RachelMaddow}}
Chuckle Nuts! This user listens to Mike Malloy scream so he doesn't have to.	{{User:UserBox/MikeMalloy}}
This user is from the planet Earth.	{{User:UserBox/User Earth}}
This user is from Earth.	{{User:UserBox/User Earthling}}

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