Just to make sure...

It was an April Fools' joke. A mean one (To most people, anyway..), but a joke. XD
 
I still don't get why so many people threw a hissy fit over that. It's not like the pages were permanently deleted or anything.

Although I did find it interesting how much of a load it took off the server by temporarily removing them. But seriously, you'd be surprised how many people just come to Bulbapedia only for the user pages. I can think of several users who came to Bulbapedia, updated their user pages for about a month, made one contrib, and then disappeared.
 
It may not be a totally good idea to get rid of them all; the userspace is where you can put pages that you want to eventually be in the mainspace but don't have enpough information yet. Take theryguy's anime pokedex page; it is in the userspace because we don't have enough info for it yet, but eventually we will move it to the main when it is complete.
 
I think the game subpages could go...you know, the ones where people make a game in their userspace subpage and then their's usually a userbox to go along with it?

There's so much junk people make....
 
Moldy Orange said:
It may not be a totally good idea to get rid of them all; the userspace is where you can put pages that you want to eventually be in the mainspace but don't have enpough information yet. Take theryguy's anime pokedex page; it is in the userspace because we don't have enough info for it yet, but eventually we will move it to the main when it is complete.
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Surely you could simply just put similar things under a "testing" or "preparation" category and work on them there?

Seems to me that the Userspaces are just spamholes for people to take up server resources that aren't available.
 
I see no reason for people to have subpages. I just put everything on the one page.

And to me, people seem to edit Talk pages more than User Pages.

And I didn't find the "joke" all that funny.
 
Hmm....

My userpage is still "gone", apparently.

Not that it's important or anything, since all that was on my userpage was a few paragraphs of text with the necessary links (lol). But yeah, I was just curious about why it's still gone, now that April Fools is over with. ^^;


EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. I noticed however, that when you're on the "talk" area, you can't access my userpage. O.O
 
So it was just an April fools joke, huh. I thought it was serious, but really, I wasn't bothered too much. People do spend way too much time on user pages. I definitely agree with the idea of removing subpages and trying to stop the games.
 
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