On 6/1/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
There's a difference, at least to the world outside Wikipedia, between an individual Wikipedian making that personal statement on a part of the site, and Wikipedia as an institution giving him a neat little badge for the purpose of making the proclamation.
... which is the exact problem of allowing templates to be used for such boilerplate expression of personal opinions.
Absolutely. The nature of the opinion being expressed here (Satanism) merely makes the difference more apparent. A hospital that permits it staff to wear political insignia is one thing; a hospital that provides political insignia to its staff is quite another.