On 6/1/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)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.