I would oppose the presence of ALL userboxes weather it supports or opposes US troops in Iraq. Such political userboxes were banned before. No reason why they were brought back. Seems like it is time for userboxen clean up phase two. I find it very disturbing a few individuals use userboxes and hence their userpages merely as a means to advocate their political views.
Supporting pedophilia is no different from supporting the US troops in Iraq in the sense that both are political views. You cannot selectively allow/disallow political views. That's just asking for trouble.
- White Cat
On Jan 19, 2008 11:09 PM, Richard Symonds hawkertyphoon@hotmail.com wrote:
Firstly, there's the issue of inflamatory userboxes. It appears that>
userboxes supporting American troops in Iraq are acceptable, but userboxes> supporting the Iraqi insurgensy aren't. Userboxes supporting the killing
of> >Iraqi insurgents are acceptable, but ones that support the killing of>
American troops aren't. Surely both the "support" ones should be
acceptable,> >whilst the ones that support killing should be delete. Then there's the ones> >that advocate peodophilia. Users who have these often argue that we accept> >homosexual userboxes, which is just a stupid argument, but they don't seem> >to be able accept that. >The answer is, of course, to ban all such userboxes and be done with>it. Trying to decide what it is and isn't acceptable to express>support for is just asking for trouble.
Or, of course, to accept them all. As long as the userboxes dont actually *kill* troops, or *engage in* paedophilia, there are no policies against it, are there? We shouldn't have *any* bias here, pro- or anti- anything. _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l