Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Young editor userboxes

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous 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 discussion was  delete all  Number   5  7  16:23, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Malcolm/Userboxes/Mid

 * Restarting due date on this MFD to provide opportunity for input, in lieu of closing as a weak no-consensus — xaosflux  Talk  03:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)



Although this has been discussed before and kept (in 2007: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Malcolm/Userboxes/Mid), I think it's worth revisiting. These userboxes draw attention to our younger users, and I feel that making these userboxes available encourages younger users, often interested in decorating their userpages with as many userboxes as they can find, to reveal their approximate ages. This deletion would also be in keeping with other deletions, such as "Wikipedians born in" categories for 1992 and on, Category:14 year old Wikipedians, etc. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:41, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I have to agree with GorillaWarfare's rationale. I think that these userboxes encourage younger users to volunteer too much personal information. In addition, I fear that these user boxes could be used to help facilitate inappropriate adult-child relationships. It would better serve the community if these sorts of identifiers were deleted. Mike V  •  Talk  02:30, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * they could also be used as signals that we should double check to make sure there is no personally identifying information, which would be to the users benefit. I suggest we remove the Jr. high school and Mid ones,  DGG ( talk ) 03:44, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom & Mike V - It's not really a brilliant idea to reveal your still in school IMO. - →Davey 2010→ →Talk to me!→  23:03, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
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