Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Wikipedia

Sister projects - Commons
Dunno if it'll mess up your system here, but I also use

which gives this:

Personally I think this is nicer than the one you have at the moment, others may or may not agree. pfctdayelise 16:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Symbols restored. The other images had small texts under them that couldn't be read at that size anyway. - TCorp 21:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Content-Free, Perhaps?
Would it be a crime to add this?

 It applies to me, and some other people too, I'm sure. After all, I enjoy adding quality and factuality to Wikipedia but also have a funnier side. So, is it funny and not stupid? - Grace notes T § 23:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No harm in adding this. A little humour is needed in Wikipedia as well. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  15:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Blocked User Box
I made this out of irritation one night. The concept is pretty simple: each additional time you get blocked, you increase the number. Just putting it out there for constructive criticism.

Zidel333 07:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Probably not a good idea. Encourages users to violate Wikipedia policy so that they will be blocked and up their "tally". Being blocked should not be treated as a red badge of courage the same way having your userpage vandalized currently is by many people. Not only does it make being banned seem like "not a big deal" (when you visit a lot of users' pages and see how many have been banned several times you'll stop thinking of banning as a serious affair), but it also encourages repeat offenses so you can get a larger number and impress other users with your "battle-scars" (wikiwounds?). For the same reason, a tally of how many users you've banned is also a terrible idea, as it encourages overuse and abuse of administrative privileges to garner a higher "score". You'll probably have a much easier time custom-making and pasting the code onto your userpage rather than making an actual template for this, at least for now. -Silence 08:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Lots of Cats
There are tons of categories at the bottom of the project page. Are all of them really needed? I know they're connected to the Uboxes, but I'm sure they can be gotten rid of. Jfing e  r s  88  03:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Did You Know 2
I made the userbox functional, but it displays wrong on this page. Would someone please fix it to display properly like the others. I can't figure it out. Royalbroil 13:21, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

All Wiki Projects
Quite a few editors have pages in all the Wiki projects. This userbox groups all the projects together. Source:

18:36, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * That's good- how about Uncyclopedia? --The preceding comment was signed by Us  e  r:Sp3000  (talk•contribs) 09:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Boxes displaying incorrectly here
A lot of user boxes don't display corectly here because of punctuation and other code (especially braces) in the markup language. I corrected a few of the boxes: 3 000e, 4 000e, 100 000e, and email. These boxes now display correctly on both user pages and here. When I have the time I'll go through the remaining boxes that don't display correctly and fix the punctuation. Casey Abell 14:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. All boxes now display correctly here and on user pages. Casey Abell 16:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Spoiler tags
I created this userbox because it pertains to the current Wikipedia policy debate at Spoiler warning. It can currently be found at User:Axem Titanium/User nospoilertags. I suppose a box representing the neutral and pro- stances would be appropriate as well. Does this merit addition to Userboxes/Wikipedia? Axem Titanium 04:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe better to cite WP:NDT instead, it's more relevant. (it also mentions the specific exception for spoilers, but the point is being opposed to it being a special case) --Random832(tc) 04:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use Template
I created two templates recently. One supporting the use of fair use in the contrast of a previous one saying that it should be never used, and one saying how the user prefers using fair use images over GFDL ones if it is of a higher quality.

Minutes after I posted them, they were deleted. In my talk page, someone wrote that my "preference of fair use over GFDL content is not really appreciated here" and the person deleting them accused me of personally insulting them because I had used a preexisting template to work off on. I always use a preexisting template to work off on. My Template:User DarkTower, for example, was based off of Template: User SK.

Secondly, I created it to show two different opinions of the argument, as many others have done with other templates. The GFDL one I won't put back on but I believe that the Fair Use one should stay. Removing it because you don't agree with it is NPOV.--CyberGhostface 14:07, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I added back the GFDL one this time in a more NPOV manner. The Wiki userboxes all show a wide range of opinions. Mine were done in a polite manner expressing mine and many others' views. Just because it has the same color as a preexisting template doesn't mean I am trying to attack them. Its just to show that its in the same 'category' like how all the Lord of the Rings userboxes all have the same colors and fonts and whatnot.--CyberGhostface 20:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Other Userboxes, short form
I've created other userboxes that mark that a person has a userpage on a sister wiki. But, mine not only allow a person to hardcode in the username, if they're putting the userbox on a subpage in userspace, a click on the image will take a person to the appropriate homepage of the sister wiki -- so that people used to such from normal web browsing will be able to travel directly to the sister wiki. My "short forms" are the WNUP (WikiNews UserPage), etc., that you can see on the project page here. Banaticus 01:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Unstubbed DYK?
Well, I recently got my first article to DYK?, but I realised that the current userbox is not suited to me, because I unstubbed the article, not created it. So, I created User:J Milburn/Userboxes/Unstubbed DYK?. Do you think this should be moved here? Just a couple of words different from the original, but I am using it, so I suppose others may want to. J Milburn 17:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

In The News?
How about a version of this for those who have contributed to Template:In the news? Ekantik talk 03:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't all Sister project user pages link to the user and not the subpage? Can we change it to BASEPAGENAME instead of PAGENAME? --The preceding comment was signed by Us  e  r:Sp3000  (talk•contribs) 09:35, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

800x600 problem
Section "Wikipedic views, attitude and preferences" does not show properly in 800x600. —Anna Lincoln 17:25, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I see this has been solved, thanks! —Anna Lincoln 08:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Basic one
Where is there a basic one where I can fill it out and just state what I hate or like? Aaron Bowen 09:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC) User:Serprex/PlugHI've put this in the Wikipedia category and posted on games,but this UBX is really in the gray between Wikipedia and GamesUser:Serprex 21:40, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia awards
I spotted this page: User:DBD/Userboxes/Wikipedia, whilst nosing around one day, and I thought DBD has created an excellent set of userboxes relating to the Editor Service Awards. I don't know if one can "nominate" another Users' Userboxes for inclusion on the main Wikipedia Userboxes list, but I certainly thought that it would be a sound idea. --Legis (talk - contribs) 08:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Wookiepedia
The wookiepedia userbox features a copyrighted image. Isn't that against policy?KeNNy 18:49, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikiladders
Would anyone be willing to create a userbox honoring wikiladders-the Wikipedia version of '7 degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon'? I'd do it myself, but it took me nearly an hour just to figure out how to insert userboxes in the first place.LeeRamsey (talk) 03:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Page too long
Any objections to this page being split into separate pages for the different sections? It currently takes too long to load over slow links.--Kotniski (talk) 09:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)