Forum:CT Archive/Modification to WP:USER regarding inactive user

Currently, our user page policy specifies in rule 11 that users who do not make any mainspace edits for 12 months lose their user page privileges. That's fine when the user has in fact edited the mainspace, but occasionally a user will show up, create a useless user page, and then either disappear or continue editing the user page without ever editing the mainspace. One such user that popped back up on recent changes tonight is.

Current practice seems to be to wait until the user account is 12 months old before tagging such user pages with Inactive. However, this practice essentially gives such users a free pass for one whole year to do what they please, which violates the precept that we are not a free webhost. We need to severely shorten the leash on these freeloaders.

Therefore, I propose that the following item be added to the user page policy as a sub-item to rule 11: Users must have at least one total mainspace edit to be eligible to have a user page in the first place. If a user creates a user page without first editing the mainspace, and they do not edit the mainspace within two months after the user page was created or two weeks following a Msg-nomain warning on their user talk page (whichever comes first), their user page may be replaced with Inactive immediately.

The two-month clause removes the need to waste time warning the initial batch of users who will be tagged under this new rule; also, if they haven't edited the mainspace after two months, it is highly unlikely that they ever will, and so warning a user that has slipped through the cracks for that long would most likely be a waste of time.

Template:Msg-nomain, referenced above, would read: Please note that |your user page is currently in violation of the user page policy, which specifies that users must have at least one edit to the main (article) namespace to be eligible for a user page. If you do not make a main namespace edit within the next two weeks or within two months from the date your user page was created, your user page privileges may be removed without further notice. Thank you. When placed on a user talk page, the words "your user page" will automatically become a link to their user page. The warning template would also contain a tracking category like FanonLimit does, so that we can more easily follow up on these users. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Training Room 02:04, February 21, 2014 (UTC)

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 * 1) As proposer. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Training Room 02:04, February 21, 2014 (UTC)