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I agree with some of that.. :) I certainly agree that this is a sentiment brought up by folks, and something that WMF may want to nudge WM project leaders about - maybe offer more trainings, mandatory trainings for some positions, I think there are a number of solutions that if a WMF leader say "someone should look into this" it would embolden the community to address it.  Right now, I think WMF is too anxious about guiding (or..gasp..leading) the WM movement to do something like that.  Maybe the SOPA action has made WMF bolder / less anxious?

However, I don't think the solution is putting extremely valuable content on User pages, I'd rather just convince the annoying folks to go away - or just be bold and do it anyway. :) The glorious thing about anything online, you can easily ignore it.  I certainly think it's a fair community expectation that we respond to each other's feedback and such - but there are some people who are just so out in crazy town, I don't pay any attention.

That's how I sleep at night..well..that at poking at beehives for kicks and giggles from time to time. ;)

I don't think anyone is suggesting user pages can't house good content, or should be prevented. However, there's more barriers to casual MW.org visitors finding that valuable content, which makes some of us sad. :( Perhaps it could be addressed, in part, by better linking within existing content to those pages?  Or is that stating the obvious?  :)