Mr. Wales,
The debate is not over whether editors should be inflammatory and divisive, but over
whether expressing personal opinions and (recently) making jokes in the user's own
userpage that no one is required to read using pages residing in the Template: namespace
is a valid example of behaving in a divisive and inflammatory manner. I think George W.
Bush is a criminal, if you feel offended by that then by all means stay off my userpage,
why do you have to go delete templates? Templates are obviously no more official than
userpages since any person can create either.
What's more, some admins even speedy userboxes in the userpage as recreations of
deleted content and this has been supported by ArbCom 8-1 or 9-0 (can't remember
which) in a famous userbox hearing. So the matter is not even whether one can express
personal opinions in template space, but also whether one can express personal opinions in
user space. No one is debating whether editors should be divisive and inflammatory,
don't make it appear so.
Molu
On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:02:46 -0400. Jimmy Wales wrote:
I have no idea why anyone is talking about decrees. CSD
T1 is normal
policy, created and confirmed in the normal way. It is a very simple
natural extension of all our other policies which, despite our ongoing
tolerance of people trolling on the mailing list, *ahem*, have always
urged people in no uncertain terms not to be divisive and inflammatory.
--Jimbo
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