Was this discussed somewhere? I'm not aware of another wiki that takes such a punitive approach - while GlobalUserPages is a thing yes, it's fairly common for some to still want to create their own local pages.
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Yes, It was discussed with numerous other admins on IRC, If a user really wants a local user page they can ask a admin to create the page and then they can edit as desired, There has only been 1 or 2 requests for it since 2022.
Is there a log somewhere where I can look at this discussion?
This strikes as quite a wrong move though - it's kind of established practice that we allow users to create a local userpage if they want (and in fact, many do have their own userpages on other WMF wikis). I don't see why MediaWiki should be any different - having to ask admins sounds like a very strange thing to me. I thought it was a spam problem that led you to impose this move, which is why I suggested allowing people with some global history to create their page here.
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Since you have set your talkpage with liquid thread, do you think you should protect the talkpage header? A question about the wikitext; explain the {{#useliqiudtherads:1}} tag, or is there a page explaining it?
A. No, no point unless it gets repeatedly vandalism, which I or someone else will deal with, when and if it happens.
B. {{#useliqiudtherads:1}} is designed to call it on pages when LQT isn't forced to be activate in that area (which we don't here on mw wiki).
But are any non-admins even supposed to edit the header. It seems to me that if no one is supposed to edit it, it should be protected, I have never understood the thinking otherwise.
Yes, we aren't very restrictive on this wiki, it's basically anything goes but vandalism and spam which we deal with if and when it happens.
As for the {{#useliqiudtherads:1}}, what is that number after the colon?
Thanks for fixing the block - I see that you had to unblock and then reblock to change the setting. I'll try to remember that for next time :-)
Yeah it's broken at the moment, I've filed a bug and its been fixed up in trunk so I have to make sure to remember get that tagged to be deployed.
Hi Peachey88, I have merged this template with Template:Maintainer sought-after. I figured that there is no need for simimar ones. I just added a second category to the template. Cheers