On 2/9/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Sam Korn wrote:
If the userpages are potentially damaging to
Wikipedia's reputation
(and this certainly is), and add nothing to the project, yes, fine,
remove the information.
Reputation in which culture? Is this a western-centric policy?
Where did I say it should be limited to a culture?
And if it is western-centric, so what? We have to draw a line in my
opinion. So I'm drawing one. Yes, it's arbitrary. But it makes
sense. The vast majority of people will not fall shy of it anyway.
This is in the user namespace, not articles. As the pro-userbox
brigade have said so loudly: NPOV does not apply to the user
namespace.
--
Sam