Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Funny

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep by a wide margin. Xoloz 15:46, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Userboxes/Funny

• List of "funny" userboxes that is just a waste of time and space. Delete. SushiGeek 21:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
  • DRV Notice, This debate has been restarted due to irregularities that has been raised in deletion review. I have no opinon on this matter. - Mailer Diablo 17:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
    • What "irregularities"? This sort of seems like a waste of time ... as if we're valuing process over product. I think the outcome of this Mfd is inevitable and it shouldn't have been brought up again. --Cyde↔Weys 17:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Of course, you could always read the DRV discussion before remarking. In this case, the debate was closed by a new editor during his first days at WP, a time during which he also involved in puppetry in other debates. Pretty serious process lapses there, I hope you'll agree. Xoloz 17:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
        • Cyde, you're the one that's mass deleting userboxes at TfD. Freddie 18:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or take down BJAODN and the rest of Category:Wikipedia_humor with it, like I said last time. —Andux^␅ 18:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. As long as there are humorous userboxes, they might as well be kept on a list. --TantalumTelluride 20:15, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per usual.--Frenchman113 on wheels! 20:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Does it hurt to show bit of a funny side on our user pages? -- Wiki ian 10:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep It is impossible to stop users from making their own funny userboxes, and they may as well be categorized. Pcu123456789 21:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Per all above.Hezzy 23:15, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Cmon, it's a fun part of our community. It's also an important part of the directory. You might as well delete all of the other funny pages too. Dtm142 23:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and stop wasting our time and space with unfortunate nominations such as this one. please. --Femur 04:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per above. Raichu 14:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per pre exsiting consensus. The Gerg 03:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Jimbo Wales' comment: "The pages which list userboxes, in the template namespace, make it seem as though putting these things on userpages is a normal and accepted community behavior, when in fact it is not." --Cyde↔Weys 03:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• Cyde, please note that you are quoting Jimbo somewhat out of context. In the quotation you mention, "these things" does not refer to userboxes in general, but more specifically to those userboxes which are used for the purpose of political or other advocacy. This means that the templates "User Boris" and "User Two Jags" should be deleted, and in fact, I couldn't agree more. But I am not aware of any opinion expressed by Jimbo about userboxes for expressing humour. My own opinion is that humorous userboxes serve a legitimate purpose, but I agree that there are too many of them. More than 100 is excessive, but I don't see an agreeable solution. Zerrakhi 10:28, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per above, expecially User:Andux. Freddie 18:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Kariià 19:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC) ^{zomg¤john cleese}

• ^{Stron Keep as per existing consensus. --LBMixPro<Speak|on|it!> 19:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)}
• Keep — Nathan ^(talk) 03:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Emphatic Keep. Why, may I ask, is this such a problem with everyone? I happen to enjoy laughing. How much space do these take, anyway? Lockesdonkey 03:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep --Terence Ong 09:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep until this page has no templates or code. Ian13/talk 12:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.