Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-452-20140617222146

I want to start an open discussion about User Page Policies to see how other admins dealt with User Pages, and what normal users expect about User Pages.

As an admin, I have always treated user pages as relatively "sovereign" territory, and have only altered user page content when there was a clear breach of policy (hate speech, etc), or there was maintenance required (Red link, broken images, etc).

I've recently encountered an admin with the opinion that "all userspace content has to be justified", but that wiki doesn't actually have a written policy reflecting that. (In the absence of written policies, common sense should apply, and I don't think "all userspace content has to be justified" makes sense. 99% of user pages on all wikis could be deleted with the reason "This content is not justified")

As an admin, I've always gone with "all admin interference in userspace content has to be justified". So long as users didn't break any rules, and their page didn't appear on maintenance pages, I let them put whatever they want on their pages. The one instance where a user disagreed with me editing their user page was after removing a music video due to a written policy of "no unrelated videos".

Some talking points:
 * Has anyone else encountered perplexing unwritten user page policies?
 * Has anyone have good or bad examples of written user page policies?
 * Have any other admins established rules restricting user page content? Have users have disagreed with those policies?
 * As an admin, do you take a firm stance on user page policies, or allow discussion about them?
 * If a user has content which must be removed for whatever reason, do you edit the page to remove the content, or do you just delete the page?
 * Do you believe in "justifying content" or "justifying removal"? 