Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 5/31/06, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
Using Tony's argument about disrepute (possibly based around the Christian American society view), if a general reader stumbled over "I am interested in Satanism" on a user page they would be just as disgusted.
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.