Wikipedia:Migration of usercruft into new namespaces

Usercruft is anything relevant mostly to the User: space that can be found elsewhere in Wikipedia.

Usercruft is not usually immediately relevant to the creation an encyclopedia, but the deletion of any of the usercruft is apparently unpopular; the recent speedy deletion of some of the userboxes has provoked complaint, and there is ongoing uncertainty as to which userboxes should remain and which should be deleted under the non-consensus proposed WP:CSD T2. (See Wikipedia:T1 and T2 debates for a summary.)

I propose that usercruft be migrated to new namespaces. In particular:

  • If technically feasible, a new pair of namespaces, "User template:"/"User template talk:" be created, that would behave like "Template:"/"Template talk:". All templates intended for use mainly on User: pages be moved there. This includes userboxes, other user templates, and whatever else the usercruft fashion of the day is. User templates that have been deleted under T2 will have their code recovered for creation in the new space.
  • If technically feasible, a new pair of namespaces, "User category:"/"User category talk:" be created, that would behave like "Category:"/"Category talk:". All categories intended for use mainly on User: pages be moved there. This includes Category:Wikipedians, Category:User templates, and trees of subcategories thereof.
  • If technically feasible, a new pair of namespaces, "User image:"/"User image talk:" be created, that would behave like "Image:"/"Image talk:". All images intended for use mainly on User: pages be moved there.
  • All such created namespaces to follow the content rules of the User: space.

Note that the three namespaces pairs are separable. I'm interested in support for any of them.

Discussion

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Straw Poll

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User template:

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