Craig Franklin wrote:
Walter,
This chap sounds like quite the fool. If he's actually putting this in
articles (I do not read Dutch well, so I don't know exactly what was
written), then it is POV rubbish and should be reverted like any common
vandalism. Saying "Allah Akhbar is almost the same as Heil Hitler" is quite
clearly POV.
Well, they are both the war cries of fanatical extremists, so it's not a
minority POV, and is therefore mentionable as part of NPOV.
That said, if he's just hitting up talk pages and
his own user page with
this sort of nonsense, I'd let it slide. Yes, it stinks, and yes, I
disagree with it, but it's better to let him make a fool of himself than
start censoring. It's a slippery slope from "no racist comments" to
"don't
question Jimbo Wales IX, Supreme Overlord and God-Emperor of Wikipedia!".
Oh how I wish we did the latter more often... maybe a little more sanity
would prevail?
This also works in reverse, so all of the nonsense on
the talk page of
[[en:Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons]] about getting rid of images that
are potentially offensive to Muslims is rubbish. There is no room on
Wikipedia for self-censorship to pander to any minority group, be they
Muslims or racists.
Actually when I first saw the cartoons I thought we would have a repeat
of the autofellatio debate where the end result was that regardless of
decency, offense or censorship, the images were copyvio :)
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