From an interview with Wikipedia founder, Jimbo Wales:
WS: Tony Sidaway asks: “In the past six weeks the number of userboxes on English Wikipedia has risen from 3500 to 6000 and, despite your appeals for restraint, the number pertaining to political beliefs has risen from 45 to 150. Can the problem of unsuitable userboxes still be resolved by debate?”
JW: My only comment on the userbox situation is that the current situation is not acceptable.