Wikipedia:May Userbox policy poll

A Compromise for the Community

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Principles:

A. Fundamental to Wikipedia is a unified community. The current userbox debate has split the community for too long of a time now, breaking up the community's unity and taking the Wikipedians in the community away from what they are meant to do- help us build a better encyclopedia. Both the inclusionists and deletionists have had their say in the matter, but neither can reach a consensus on what to do. Seeing this, a moderate proposal, which will attempt to both please and unify both sides, must come into play.

B. The Template: namespace must have a neutral point of view. However, removing all userboxes from a centralized location, the Template: namespace, has caused too much split in the community to be considered a viable option. Therefore, a new centralized location, one which will be declared to allow points of view, is the best option for the reunification of Wikipedia.

C. The community has already shown that they support a compromise between the two sides as described above. While Wikipedia may not be a democracy, the community itself keeps us running; if the community wishes for a compromise to reunify itself, it must be attained.

Userbox Policy:

1. The Userbox: namespace will be created on Wikipedia.
2. The Userbox: namespace will be declared to allow points of view.
3. All userboxes, including those with a POV, shall be moved into the newly created Userbox: namespace.
4. The Userbox: namespace will only be allowed to be used on pages in the User: namespace and WP:UBX.
5. The Userbox: namespace will still be required to fulfill major Wikipedia policy, such as no personal attacks, and userboxes can be deleted if they exist within the Userbox: namespace and do not conform to Wikipedia policy.

Implementation:

1. The Userbox: namespace will be created. Developer Rob Church has noted that this would not be too strenuous for the dev team.
2. A team of volunteer users will move the userboxes from their current location into the Userbox: namespace, except for those that do not meet policy 5 above. If a userbox is not moved within two weeks of this policy's implementation, it may be deleted using T2; however, we will attempt to move all userboxes we can find.
3. A new deletion policy will be created for userboxes in the Userbox: namespace, which will be made to conform with policy 5 above.

Poll

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