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| == Question regarding Project Userbox == | | == Question regarding Project Userbox == |
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| What was Project Userbox, and why were it and all userboxes purged from this site? What mess did the userboxes cause? --[[User:KevinM|KevinM]] ([[User talk:KevinM|talk]]) 22:36, July 3, 2024 (EDT) | | What was Project Userbox, and why were it and all userboxes purged from this site? What mess did the userboxes cause? --[[User:KevinM|KevinM]] ([[User talk:KevinM|talk]]) 22:36, July 3, 2024 (EDT) |
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| :Hey there, "Project Userbox" was part of a time on Halopedia when a lot of stuff was a lot more... loose. It was where people listed Userbox templates they made for people to use. It was kinda mostly abandoned when Halopedia left Wikia (Now Fandom) in 2010 and was kinda just becoming a weird relic that needed tidied up.
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| :Now why where they all deleted, they were kinda horrible as a whole. A tldr is they...
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| ::1. Often didn't use a standard. When I was looking through them all they all had different ideas and so on in them. This made them unviable to maintain in the long term.
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| ::2. They filled the template namespace making finding important stuff harder, deleting them all fixed this issue outright as we focused Templates to mostly have a purpose.
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| ::3. They often went unused or had 1 single person use them. Which is something we want to try and avoid in templates going forward.
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| ::4. They used rubbish files that were exclusively for that. We have a stronger file policy nowadays, and Userboxes wouldn't fit into that.
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| ::5. The naming schemes they had were unfortunately unregulated, something that we are getting better at maintaining going forward.
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| :Ultimately them being mostly underused, bad standards, and what they are going against how Halopedia runs nowadays means they are very likely not to be adopted here again. -[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 09:31, July 5, 2024 (EDT)
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