On 5/19/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
I recall a (fairly recent?) ArbCom decision mentioning something about userpages that "bring the project into disrepute"; is there any reason not to extend this criterion to user subpages? The denizens of WikiTruth and Wikipedia Review and their ilk already have the entire rest of the Internet to spout their garbage; there's utterly no reason to legitimize it and help spread it by hosting it (however inconspicuously) on a top-20 site.
I have nothing in principle against a guideline like this, except for the essential undefiniability of what does or does not "bring the project into disrepute."
Again, I don't expect there to EVER be an easy answer to what is or isn't allowed, but some sort of guideline, along with a few examples, would probably go a long way towards articulating the policy and its spirit. (This has worked very well for WP:NPOV, for example -- the examples have practically eliminated hair-splitting over the issues of pseudoscience, creationism, fringe theories, etc. that used to consume NPOV disputes.)
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