Wikipedia:Userboxes/Userbox location straw poll 2

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This is a new version of Wikipedia:Userboxes/Userbox location straw poll.

Please note: This is a non-binding straw poll of opinion.You are not voting on a proposal. Please help by expressing a preference on the items below or by adding a new item.
Feel free to discuss your opinion in more detail on the talk page.

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The purpose of this straw poll

The purpose of this straw poll is to address userbox namespace location and related issues. It intentionally does not address issues related to userboxes and categories. A separate straw poll can cover that topic. The straw poll starts with a “userbox pegboard.” Think of this as a way to “pin” your username to a choice of where (in what namespace) a certain type of userbox should go. Comments also are welcome. The next section includes a set of assertions about related userbox location issues.You can show your strong / weak / simple support or opposition, with or without comment, for each statement.

Contents 1 The purpose of this straw poll 2 Userbox pegboard 2.1 Languages 2.2 Life, status and situation 2.3 Politics, opinions and beliefs 2.4 Interests and tastes 2.5 Wikipedia-related 2.6 Other userboxes 3 Applicable policies, guidelines and ArbCom rulings 3.1 Their namespace location 3.2 Policy 3.3 De-regulation 4 Centralized Wikipedia namespace userbox directories 4.1 Only for userboxes created in template and Wikipedia namespace 4.2 For all userboxes 5 Centralized User namespace userbox directories 5.1 Only for userboxes created there 5.2 For all userboxes

[edit] Userbox pegboard

How to use the userbox pegboard: Place your username (see examples – using three tildes "#~~~") in any cell for which you think it is the best match for a userbox type and namespacecombination.Types in ALL CAPS represent groups of types.Add any comments under the applicable group or on the talk page.

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
Examples: Edit to see how to show usernames.	User 1 User 2 User 3	User 4 User 5 User 6	User 7 User 8 User 9

[edit] Languages

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
LANGUAGES	FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • Chardish Psychless Bernstein2291 ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Babel: For multilingual communication.	FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psychless Waltontalk Bernstein2291 ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Grammar: For preferences on grammatical and dialect-related controversies.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Psychless		Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) Carom -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Non-ISO Languages: For non-ISO languages.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Programming: For programming languages.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

• Template:Babel must stay in template space as that is the Wikimedia wiki way. I made an interwiki link edit to the pt Wikipedia, so I got an account, but put {{babel|en|fr-2|pt-0}} so that nobody tries to contact me in Portuguese. Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:03, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Life, status and situation

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
LIFE, STATUS AND SITUATION			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • Chardish Donald Albury ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Education: For educational qualifications, schools, colleges and universities, by region.	FunPika		Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Health: For physical and mental health.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Life: For age, ancestry, family and profession.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s
Location: For country and state of origin, and regional organizations.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) ——Jonathan——		Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom Chardish Psychless --Shruti14 t c s
Time: For time zone and other temporal userboxes.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Chardish -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Psychless ——Jonathan——		Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom --Shruti14 t c s
Zodiac: For zodiac symbol userboxes.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psychless ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

[edit] Politics, opinions and beliefs

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
POLITICS, OPINIONS AND BELIEFS			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here 01:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Waltontalk --Shruti14 t c s
Religion: For religious and spiritual views.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here 01:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Waltontalk --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

• Obviously they belong in userspace. The question is whether the anti-userbox fanatics will even let us keep them there, or whether they'll go on a deletion spree based on a false interpretation of criterion T1. Walton^talk 13:12, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interests and tastes

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
INTERESTS AND TASTES			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Donald Albury --Shruti14 t c s
Books: For favourite books and graphic novels.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Computing: For computing, such as blogs, websites, browsers and hardware.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Food: For favourite foods, beverages, and eating habits.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Games For favourite board, card and video games.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Interests: For universal human interests and hobbies.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Mathematics: For statistics, measurement systems, and other areas in mathematics.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Media: For favourite radio, television, movies and newspapers.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Music: For musical taste and interests.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Pets: For pets and other animals.	FunPika		Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Sports: For favourite sports.			FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

[edit] Wikipedia-related

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
WIKIPEDIA-RELATED	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom Waltontalk	Maddie was here	Greeves (talk • contribs) -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 t c s
Large/Licensing: For large userboxes related to licencing of Wikipedia users' contributions.	FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Donald Albury Waltontalk --Shruti14 t c s	Maddie was here -Royalguard11(T·R!)
Wikipedia: For user category, association, editing philosophy and preferences.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t)	Maddie was here 01:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)	Greeves (talk • contribs) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Donald Albury Waltontalk --Shruti14 t c s
WikiProjects: For userboxes related to WikiProjects.	Donald Albury Waltontalk	FunPika Greeves (talk • contribs) • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here -Royalguard11(T·R!) --Shruti14 t c s
Userboxes: For userboxes about userboxes and userbox policy.		FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t)	Greeves (talk • contribs) Carom Maddie was here -Royalguard11(T·R!) Donald Albury Waltontalk --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

• Basically anything which is solely about opinion belongs in userspace, whether Wikipedia-related or not; anything which is about your role on Wikipedia should be in template-space, as it's useful to other editors.

[edit] Other userboxes

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
OTHER USERBOXES			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here Donald Albury --Shruti14 t c s
Emoticons: For userboxes representing a current mood.			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here --Shruti14 t c s
Seasonal: For seasonal userboxes.			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie was here --Shruti14 t c s

Comments:

[edit] Applicable policies, guidelines and ArbCom rulings

The policies, guidelines and Arbitration Committee rulings that apply to userboxes should be based on...

[edit] Their namespace location

Comments:

[edit] Policy

Support

Oppose

[edit] De-regulation

Support

Oppose

[edit] Centralized Wikipedia namespace userbox directories

Centralized userbox directories should be allowed in Wikipedia namespace...

[edit] Only for userboxes created in template and Wikipedia namespace

Comments:

• Oppose Makes directories too limited if it is only for template and project space userboxes. FunPika 23:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For all userboxes

Comments:

• Support Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support makes it very organized, and can avoid the GUS mess. (→zelzany - fish) 21:05, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support It can make things more organised - • The Giant Puffin • 21:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support The organization is good. FunPika 23:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support -Flubeca (t) 13:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Centralized User namespace userbox directories

Centralized userbox directories should be allowed in User namespace...

[edit] Only for userboxes created there

Comments:

• Support Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support (→zelzany - fish) 21:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support FunPika 23:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
• Support -Flubeca (t) 13:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For all userboxes

Comments:

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