Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ShooterBoy/MoarUserboxes

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 Prune. We have generally give a lot of leeway for editors that want to have a ton of crazy userboxes, but the argument of the nominator is valid. Language and Project userboxes and their associated categories are important parts of the collaboration system, and this useage doesn't help. All of these types of boxes have been removed from the page. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:ShooterBoy/MoarUserboxes

Abuse of language userboxes put him in categories for languages with few or no speakers. I was trying to find a native speaker of a language and this page was the only category in it. T Rex | talk 21:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - it would be much faster to ask the user to remove userboxes that do not really apply to them. I'll go leave a polite message on his talk page now. There's no pressing urgency to remove the page history, is there? Mark Chovain 22:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

  I guess so. --Hirohisat ^Kiwi 02:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

• Even for this age of same-sex civil partnerships the user has far too many Mother Languages, let alone those for which Native Speaking is claimed. I am for deletion ASAP as it is the type of merry trash which raises Wikipedia's reputation for unreliability.--SilasW 21:16, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I don't see why we should delete it. Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 00:20, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. This type of page is misleading and wastes the time of anyone who is looking through user language categories for the purpose of requesting assistance with translation efforts. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 01:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - Too many user boxes to claim he did not know any better. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 06:05, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Babel userboxes should not be abused; they have an encyclopedic purpose. Walton^One 17:31, 6 September 2007 (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.