Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 1/4/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
We have a settled policy that users can do pretty much anything they like on their user pages and subpages, within the bounds of civility.
Absolutely not. Wikipedia isn't a web hosting service.
You're right, [[Wikipedia:User page]] is a guideline, not a policy. But I also see that the guideline starts with "Whatever you like, within some reasonable boundaries", and I couldn't find anything that said advocacy of a POV was outside of those boundaries. In fact, many editors, including some oldtimers, consider inclusion of their favored POVs to be an essential part of developing the encyclopedia; there are even some respected editors for whom inclusion of material supporting their POV (but written in NPOV fashion) is the main reason they work on WP. It looks like one or two variants of the failed Userspace policy proposal from last April suggested putting an NPOV rule on user pages; not too many people seemed to like the idea.
Stan