MarioWiki:Proposals

Writing guidelines
None at the moment.

New features
None at the moment.

Ban friend userboxes
No, not discourage. Ban.

I've seen users giving each other friend userboxes after a "friend request" (a talk page message). Thing is, this is not a social media site. There is no reason to keep around a relic from the past that should have been removed years ago.

Proposer: Deadline: August 17, 2019, 23:59 GMT

Support

 * 1) - Per proposal.

Oppose

 * 1) I don't see how friend userboxes actually negatively impact the wiki in any meaningful way, and unless I'm missing something, Userspace doesn't actually say anything that'd justify banning them. In fact, the page explicitly says that non-wiki-related activities are allowed, and that building the community helps build the wiki itself. It's really only a problem when people get so invested in userspace that they stop contributing to the wiki.
 * 2) Per my comments and Niiue.
 * 3) - Userboxes still fall within userspace guidelines. As long as userspace editing doesn't become excessive, there's no reason to remove something fun.

Comments
Yes, i'm aware that this is not a social media, but as long as they are not too frequent, they can stay. I oppose. -- 10:47, August 10, 2019 (EDT)

@Niiue: I'm pretty sure that one of the MarioWiki pages said "this is not a social media site" somewhere, but I'll remove the misinformation. Friend userboxes don't positively impact the wiki either. No reason to keep something that doesn't do anything besides look nice. 11:04, August 10, 2019 (EDT)
 * Then why not ban userboxes entirely? Or signatures? Or personal images? There are a lot of things on the wiki that technically serve no purpose, and there's nothing wrong with that. The wiki isn't supposed to be serious business 24/7. 11:33, August 10, 2019 (EDT)

Changes
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Miscellaneous
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