On Jan 19, 2008 9:52 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.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.
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Yes, he simplest solution would be to ban all boxes not related to Wikipedia
or your activity on wiki (such as babel boxes). Though it's pretty easy to
tell what's divisive and what isn't (which, I think, is a reason to speedy
delete).
--John Reaves