User:Brian/Evidences

Userboxes are part of Wikinews
Place argument and diffs which support the second assertion, for example, your second assertion might be "Jimmy Wales makes personal attacks". Here you would list specific edits where Jimmy Wales made personal attacks.

Amgine disrupted the site by deleting them
  Amgine, repeatedly violated the WN:DG, and the WN:SD. Below, are examples of this behaviour have been gathered: Amgine's deletions Deletions of templates:

  

Userboxes are a case of free speech
Place argument and diffs which support the second assertion, for example, your second assertion might be "Jimmy Wales makes personal attacks". Here you would list specific edits where Jimmy Wales made personal attacks.

Wikinews is not Wikipedia

 * Amgine stated: “Wikinews is not Wikipedia. Our policies, and community needs, are different”
 * But also said: “…watching the developments on WP, and measured the benefits versus the drawbacks of userboxes…. The user use of category and template namespaces… userboxes should not be on Wikinews”

One this does not if in with the "Wikinews is not Wikipedia", and I agree Wikinews is not Wikipedia. Wikinews is a different community, different policy. Different needs, different proposes. How can what happens on wikipedia be what is necessarily the best for Wikinews?

Deletion was out of process
The entire deletion of the Userboxes/babel templates should have gone through WN:DR. Amgine is an admin, and a respected editor, but in this case he used his privileges in a mass deletion campaign - breaking links on user's pages - and set a bad example for other users and administrators.

Userboxes are beneficial
Babel templates are helpful. They can show a user's language skills and, if you need help on a Spanish article, you can track down who speaks it to ask for help. The same applies with Userboxes. If you were writing about US politics, you can get help from someone who knows about how the US system works, etc.

Amgine was disruptive
Amgine's actions violated the sense of community and collaboration that is Wikinews.

Re: "Wikinews is not a free wiki host or webspace provider" (WN:NOT), the policy also states "Wikinews is not a theater of war." Mass deletions don't reflect that Amgine was behaving civilly, calmly, and in a spirit of cooperation.

What do user boxes do?
I mean in their most trite and useles implementation they are nothing more than a bumper sticker on a person's ass to announce some belief. What good comes from userboxes? (and I must be going to bed) -68.232.153.54 08:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)