I stand corrected, the SiteNotice shouldn't be used for general good advice religious or otherwise. My point still stands, though, for other official areas where good advice is tolerated (say the upload file MediaWiki message). In these areas, religion shouldn't be used.
On 13/07/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Oldak Quill wrote:
Even if the verse were essentually non-religious, a quote from the Qur'an, a religious text, is inappropriate. This verse is blatantly religious though and should be removed as quickly as is possible.
Even if the quote were essentially non-religious, *and* from a non-religious text, then it would still be inappropriate for a site notice. To my knowledge, the site notice has never been used to convey general good advice or anything of the sort on any project or any language. This is not a matter of religion versus non-religion, it is a matter of, well, this is not what the sitenotice is for.
--Jimbo
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