On 2/6/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/6/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
We should do this. Really we should. For the sake of the encyclopedia these divisive things must die, and acquire a "shoot on sight" status. The community is torn in two by their very presence, and I fear that only a software feature preventing the use of categories and templates in userspace would work now. If I want to say that I'm available as a resource to those needing a speaker of good French, passable Spanish and schoolboy Latin, I can create wikiprojects for the purpose and add my name to them. The userbox is a nice idea that, for the encyclopedia, has had absolutely hideous consequences.
Likewise, if I want to express that I'm a muslim-hating far-right Christian fundamentalist, I'll just create a wikiproject for that purpose too...
I suspect that if the desire to express such things is there, taking away a means to do it won't achieve much.
Steve
Technically speaking you could, but I would support an immediate blocking. It would constitute baiting and refueling the fire over this debate, and it's really not helpful to creating an encyclopedia to begin with.
Mgm