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elian wrote: That's exactly why I had the "Anti-American users" page deleted (which Lir instantly identified as "vandalism"). People who are "anti" often don't know a better alternative, or else they could say they're "pro"-something ;-) Besides, having an anti-America page on an American server does discredit itself somewhat... Magnus

Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: OK, let's open a pro-Osama page. Once all have signed in (especially americans), I'll be happy to forward the URL to the FBI. I'm sure they'll have shut down wikipedia in no time ;-) Seriously, while geographic location pages for users are surely OK, political statements etc. have *no* use at all on an encyclopedia, with the possible exception of a "list of expert users" for some topic. "wikipedia:Muslim users" might serve a function. Your *views* should be kept either to your user page or to the meta, where we already have several "my view on life"-style articles. Magnus

elian wrote: I'm prepared to tolerate the "anti-" pages. If people want to paint targets on their foreheads for everybody else to shoot at, I don't think that the rest of us need to jump in to prevent their suicide. People who choose to put their names on these lists need to know that being there may say something to the rest of us about their credibility. There can even be several pages that seem to say the same thing (anti-american/anti-yankee or anti-gay/anti-queer/anti-pervert) with each expressing a different perspective on the subject. If some of the sillier debates can be marginalized to these personal anti-pages, the more serious contributors are likely to ignore them completely, no matter how offensive they get. Individual user pages don't quite do the job for the people on these pages; they often need to feel that they are a part of a group, even if it is a group of one. Eclecticology