On 5/17/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/16/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
Molu wrote:
I
think George W. Bush is a criminal, if you feel offended by that then
by all means stay off my userpage,
And if you feel that the best way to participate on the Internet is by
posting inflammatory statements on your userpage, then by all means stay
off of Wikipedia. Go find a project which welcomes political rants and
leave us alone.
--Jimbo
Inforceing that one could be interesting. The effect of deleting
[[User:Kingstonjr]]
[[User:Hashbrowns]]
[[User:Markaci/Nudity]]
[[User:Cyde/Weird pictures]]
(seriously NSFW)
is unlikey to involve people acting calmly. At least going by the
normal reaction of the various wikipedia is not censored groups.
--
geni
And hence the irony in the chain of events leading to the current
userbox controversy.
Although wikipedia is indeed a sociological phenomena, it is still the
first experiment of its type, and as such it cannot make itself based
on prior rules. However, that is still not a reason, in good faith, to
force ones hand by using practical actions without an objective
statement of why actions are being taken.
Peter