Hoi,
The pope has it right when he does not accept at all the notion that the
holocaust did not occur. People may have this opinion, but that does not
mean that you have to accept that they may express their opinions
everywhere.
It is one thing to have unacceptable opinions, it is another to express
them. Our projects are not a platform for agitation. I do welcome the
blocking of obvious discriminatory practices in any of our projects.
Thanks,
Gerard
2009/2/13 Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
Blocked? I don't think we should ever block
anybody for having an
opinion. If they push their POV in articles, fine; if they use racial
slurs repeatedly, sure, but even if someone is of the opinion that
white or black or Asian people, or women or men or anybody else, is
"scum", or any opinion like that, it shouldn't be a blockable offense
to just hold such an opinion.
Mark
skype: node.ue
2009/2/12 Yann Forget <yann(a)forget-me.net>et>:
geni wrote:
2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de>de>:
Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no
data that support such
an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I don't
know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.
Ting
Prejudice? We know Iran's record on human rights and we know Iran's
record of responding to speech they do not like (calling for the
assassination the citizen of another country for example).
The available evidence is that the Iranian government is a potential
threat and unlike western governments don't have to worry about
annoying laws and bad PR if they try anything.
And how this relate to the status of stewarship?
Would you accept that someone be rejected because he is Muslim or Jew?
or because he is black or white? This is exactly the same to me, i.e.
not acceptable.
Such allegations should not be accept in any Wikimedia projects, and any
user using these should be blocked.
Yann
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