On 2/19/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Projects/Userboxes/Policy
Hmm.
Although many editors would prefer that expression of POV be
discouraged on user pages, many others believe that bias is better declared.
The more I think about it, the more I agree with the first. I find it harder to assume good faith when someone blatantly states their strong POV. Someone says "I am anti-abortion", then proceeds to edit pages pertaining to abortion - what are you going to assume? That he's there to fix typos?
For the same reason that we don't allow strong POV usernames (AntiAbortionCrusader etc), shouldn't we discourage stating of POVs on userpages?
Steve