Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-1251315-20150115130352

Bluesonic1 wrote: Isn't a User Page a user's page? Not anyone else's? It seems really excessive and controlling to manage what people post on their user page, which essentially acts as a profile for the user on the Wiki. Aren't there more important things to attend to than mini-mod bull on people's profiles? Or is stuff on people's profiles genuinely affecting the way the Wiki works (genuine question here, I'm not sure if I'm missing something technical or if the situation is as simple as I understand it to be)? User pages are not facebook profiles and should not be used as such. If you look around a lot of userpages on this wiki, a lot of them are just roleplay characters or personal biographies of the user, a few are just one liners by editors who don't really edit here. While a user page does indeed belong to a user, it's not the user's personal property and should be controlled to a degree. I'm not suggesting ridiculous control, but they need to have a purpose, especially as this is cleared mentioned on this page: Project:What TESWiki is not.

Don't forget, we have a policy on how many "personal" images you can upload for use on your userpage. On many wiki's I have visited, userpages tend to feature abuse and aren't strictly relevant to a user's contributions. We are a wiki about the canon aspect of TES, why do we have userpages that consist only of roleplaying characters or things that don't actually relate to how a wiki editor contributes to it?

Most of our wiki's seasoned editors write legitimate userpages, as do sysops on the wiki: a few seasoned editors don't even have anything on their userpage either.