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experimenting with userboxes (often prevalent with type C userboxitis). If a separate page for userboxes was created, another way to diagnose userboxitis is by starting at the top of the page and scrolling until the bottom of the page. If this process takes more than a couple seconds (~2 seconds), it is likely that userboxitis is present.
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There is no known cure for userboxitis, except perhaps a block from
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A simple way to diagnose oneself with userboxitis is to simply ask another
Wikipedian if their collection of userboxes seems excessive. Another good measure is if one were to create a separate page, or pages, in some, more severe cases, entirely for userboxes, or have created sandboxes for
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incident). However, complete deletion or partial deletion of userboxes has been rumored to cure userboxitis, but it is a hard and painful process and often only attainable through this process with the assistance of licensed
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