On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. See for instance here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Userboxes/Religion&o...
A project page in the Wikipedia namespace provided a satanist template (now deleted and under review) residing in the template namespace.
To the outside world (and to me) it thus appears that the Wikipedia project is providing all users with a facility to label themselves according to beliefs, and by implication, encouragement to do so.
No it doesn't. The outside would doesn't see that page. The outside world sticks to articles.
A far better canandidate for that claim would be say:
http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Or
http://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destp%C3%AAk
This is especially problematic with disreputable religions and pseudoreligions (I apologise if this offends American sensibilities attuned to First Amendment absolutism) such as Satanism, Scientology and the like.
What exactly is disreputable about say LaVeyan Satanism?