CZ Talk:Leaving the project

User's workgroup categories

Perhaps the workgroup categories on the userpage of a departed author/editor should be made invisible with the <!--... tag. Currently users who have left CZ are still listed as authors, editors, etc. John Stephenson 11:51, 30 August 2007 (CDT)

I think it's a good idea.

I have two unrelated questions. Where this 'policy' should be linked from? Now it's an orphan not connected to CZ:Project Home. How do we proceed to make it official policy/guideline adopted by CZ? Surely, the fact that someone put it on the wiki and no one protested since hardly anyone heard about it does not make it a policy. Aleksander Stos 14:12, 30 August 2007 (CDT)

Right, and to be honest I'm not sure. And another issue: what to do about the user pages of people who've been blocked. Those without contributions have had their pages deleted in some but not all cases; but examples such as User:James Bexley show it's not obvious that this person was blocked, or why; readers need to be wiki-aware and want to find the block log to discover this. Really, accounts such as this should have their categories invisibled (is that a word?), their user page protected, and a their bio replaced with a briefer version with a link to the block like this.

There's also the issue of what to do if we receive notice that someone's died... John Stephenson 07:22, 31 August 2007 (CDT)