User talk:Steven Weston

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Hello, Steven Weston, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] User Category for Discussion

A category created by you or to which you have significantly contributed is being considered for deletion, rename, move or merge in accordance with Wikipedia's Categories for Discussion policies. This does not mean that any of the userpages in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized.
Please share your thoughts on the matter at this category's entry on the User categories for discussion page.
VegaDark 20:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I just wanted to know exactly why it's being considered for deletion. I think the people in the category have this userbox:

This user despises vandalism and reverts it with extreme pride.




on their page. There are quite a few of them. Is it beacuse it is too polemical a category? Is it because it has been created and deemed too polemical and thus deleted before? Please, someone, enlighten me.

--Steven Weston 20:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I'd be happy to enlighten you. On Wikipedia:User categories for discussion, we've been against two things most of all: categories that create a sense that all responsible users should be members of them, and categories which declare a negative preference and thus cannot be used for collaboration. This category does both: Everybody's supposed to be against vandalism, and no one using it is declaring a preference for anything except an absence of vandalism. That's why it's unanimous that it should be deleted, and why I'm in the process of doing so right now. That make sense? (Please note that the userbox will be untouched, it's just the category that's being deleted.)--Mike Selinker 22:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Yes that's fine. I'll leave it alone hereafter. I guess I should have read Wikipedia:User categories for discussion...--Steven Weston 13:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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