Prasad J wrote:
I noticed that there exists a userbox template {{User America fan}}- to indicate that the concerned user supports the U.S. However, there is no such userbox template indicate that the concerned user supports any of the other 180-odd countries that make up this Earth, eg. ther is no {{User Australia fan}} or {{User Japan fan}}. To indicate that a user supports any country other than the U.S, he/she has to create a userbox-there is no ready-made template. Why is this (apparent) favouritsm being shown toward the U.S. Aren't the other 188 countries worthy of having supporters? Also there is another 9/11,memoriam userbox template, however there is no Nazi Holocaust Memorial template. While we all realise that most Wikipedians (especially the powers-that-be) are Americans, this sort of bias is hurtful to us non-American Wikipedians. I would have taken this user-template matter up with someone on Wikipedia, but when I tried to enquire about a possible course of action on IRC, a user asked me (on the basis that I was questioning the {{User America fan}} template) whether I was an Islamofascist. Needless to say this made me a bit apprehensive, so I'm posing this question on the mailing list. Any comments/views would be appreciated. Thanks.
PS-No offence intended to American Wikipedians.
Quoth the cabal line, "{{USER AMERICA FAN}} DIVISIVE SPEEDY NOW HUR HUR HUR". (If you don't get it, it means that the [[cabal]] considers such templates wrong and wants them deleted; see [[WP:DRVU]].) Me? I couldn't care less about userboxes, except for the really blatantly divisive ones.
John