This is a new version of Wikipedia:Userboxes/Userbox location straw poll.

Please note: This is a non-binding straw poll of opinion.You are not voting on a proposal. Please help by expressing a preference on the items below or by adding a new item.
Feel free to discuss your opinion in more detail on the talk page.

The purpose of this straw poll

The purpose of this straw poll is to address userbox namespace location and related issues.

It intentionally does not address issues related to userboxes and categories. A separate straw poll can cover that topic.

The straw poll starts with a “userbox pegboard.” Think of this as a way to “pin” your username to a choice of where (in what namespace) a certain type of userbox should go. Comments also are welcome.

The next section includes a set of assertions about related userbox location issues.You can show your strong / weak / simple support or opposition, with or without comment, for each statement.

Userbox pegboard[edit]

How to use the userbox pegboard: Place your username (see examples – using three tildes "#~~~") in any cell for which you think it is the best match for a userbox type and namespacecombination.Types in ALL CAPS represent groups of types.Add any comments under the applicable group or on the talk page.

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
Examples: Edit to see how to show usernames.	User 1 User 2 User 3	User 4 User 5 User 6	User 7 User 8 User 9

Languages

UBX type	Template namespace	User namespace
LANGUAGES	FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • Chardish Psych less Bernstein2291 ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Babel: For multilingual communication.	FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psych less Walton^talk Bernstein2291 ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Grammar: For preferences on grammatical and dialect-related controversies.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Psych less	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) Carom -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Non-ISO Languages: For non-ISO languages.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Programming: For programming languages.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}

Comments:

Template:Babel must stay in template space as that is the Wikimedia wiki way. I made an interwiki link edit to the pt Wikipedia, so I got an account, but put ((babel|en|fr-2|pt-0)) so that nobody tries to contact me in Portuguese. Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:03, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Life, status and situation

UBX type	Template namespace	User namespace
LIFE, STATUS AND SITUATION		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • Chardish Donald Albury ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Education: For educational qualifications, schools, colleges and universities, by region.	FunPika	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Health: For physical and mental health.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Life: For age, ancestry, family and profession.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Location: For country and state of origin, and regional organizations.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) ——Jonathan——	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom Chardish Psych less --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Time: For time zone and other temporal userboxes.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Chardish -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Psych less ——Jonathan——	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Zodiac: For zodiac symbol userboxes.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Psych less ——Jonathan—— --Shruti14 ^{t c s}

Comments:

Politics, opinions and beliefs

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
POLITICS, OPINIONS AND BELIEFS			FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} 01:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply] -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Walton^talk --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Religion: For religious and spiritual views.			FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} 01:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply] -Royalguard11(T·R!) Chardish Donald Albury Walton^talk --Shruti14 ^{t c s}

Comments:

Obviously they belong in userspace. The question is whether the anti-userbox fanatics will even let us keep them there, or whether they'll go on a deletion spree based on a false interpretation of criterion T1. Walton^talk 13:12, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interests and tastes

UBX type	Template namespace	User namespace
INTERESTS AND TASTES		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) Donald Albury --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Books: For favourite books and graphic novels.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Computing: For computing, such as blogs, websites, browsers and hardware.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Food: For favourite foods, beverages, and eating habits.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Games For favourite board, card and video games.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Interests: For universal human interests and hobbies.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Mathematics: For statistics, measurement systems, and other areas in mathematics.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Media: For favourite radio, television, movies and newspapers.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Music: For musical taste and interests.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Pets: For pets and other animals.	FunPika	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140
Sports: For favourite sports.		FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s} Macbookair3140

Comments:

Wikipedia-related

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
WIKIPEDIA-RELATED	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom Walton^talk	Maddie^{was here}	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Flubeca (t) --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Large/Licensing: For large userboxes related to licencing of Wikipedia users' contributions.	FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Donald Albury Walton^talk --Shruti14 ^{t c s}	Maddie^{was here} -Royalguard11(T·R!)
Wikipedia: For user category, association, editing philosophy and preferences.	FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t)	Maddie^{was here} 01:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} -Royalguard11(T·R!) Donald Albury Walton^talk --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
WikiProjects: For userboxes related to WikiProjects.	Donald Albury Walton^talk	FunPika Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} -Royalguard11(T·R!) --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Userboxes: For userboxes about userboxes and userbox policy.		FunPika • The Giant Puffin • -Flubeca (t)	Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} Carom Maddie^{was here} -Royalguard11(T·R!) Donald Albury Walton^talk --Shruti14 ^{t c s}

Comments:

Basically anything which is solely about opinion belongs in userspace, whether Wikipedia-related or not; anything which is about your role on Wikipedia should be in template-space, as it's useful to other editors.

Other userboxes

UBX type	Template namespace	Wikipedia namespace	User namespace
OTHER USERBOXES			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} Donald Albury --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Emoticons: For userboxes representing a current mood.			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} --Shruti14 ^{t c s}
Seasonal: For seasonal userboxes.			FunPika • The Giant Puffin • Carom -Flubeca (t) Maddie^{was here} --Shruti14 ^{t c s}

Comments:

Applicable policies, guidelines and ArbCom rulings[edit]

The policies, guidelines and Arbitration Committee rulings that apply to userboxes should be based on...

Their namespace location

Comments:

Policy

Support

Oppose

De-regulation

Support

Oppose

Centralized Wikipedia namespace userbox directories[edit]

Centralized userbox directories should be allowed in Wikipedia namespace...

Only for userboxes created in template and Wikipedia namespace

Comments:

Oppose Makes directories too limited if it is only for template and project space userboxes. FunPika 23:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For all userboxes

Comments:

Support Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support makes it very organized, and can avoid the GUS mess. (→zel zany - fish) 21:05, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support It can make things more organised - • The Giant Puffin • 21:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support The organization is good. FunPika 23:27, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Flubeca (t) 13:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of this straw poll

Userbox pegboard[edit]

Languages

Life, status and situation

Politics, opinions and beliefs

Interests and tastes

Wikipedia-related

Other userboxes

Applicable policies, guidelines and ArbCom rulings[edit]

Their namespace location

Policy

De-regulation

Centralized Wikipedia namespace userbox directories[edit]

Only for userboxes created in template and Wikipedia namespace

For all userboxes

Centralized User namespace userbox directories[edit]

Only for userboxes created there

For all userboxes