[WikiEN-l] 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead' slogan

[james duffy]

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The Cunctator's claims on the 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead' slogan cannot be 
allowed to stand.

1. The people he said support his stand don't. Most agreed on the talk page 
that the change made was correct.
2. It is debatable whether such an article belongs on Wiki at all. But what 
is not debatable is that it does not under any circumstances belong under 
the name 'AIDS kills fags dead' slogan.
3. There was full agreement on the move. The Cunctator UNILATERALLY screwed 
up everyone else's contribution by deciding UNILATERALLY to change the name 
of a page from one there was general agreement on to one there was general 
disapproval of, but which seemed to be his pet name for the page.
4. As to the claim that he didn't know where Stevertigo stood, it was 
Stevertigo who RENAMED it to the agreed name. If that doesn't indicate where 
he stands I don't know what does.
5. Having changed the name against the will of the people working on the 
page, the Cunctator then DELIBERATELY created his own personal content for 
the [[Homophobic hate speech]] page to ensure that nobody else could return 
the page to the agreed name.

By any standards, The Cunctator's behaviour is outrageous. His determination 
against the opinion of others (including some who initially agreed with him 
but who then sided with the new name) to change the article title, and keep 
changing the title when it was reverted back to the agreed name, to a 
version that many people find offensive, that Jimbo Wales had issues with, 
and about which there was universal agreement that it should not be used, is 
bizarre and utterly contrary to the principles of Wiki and the concept of 
consensus which had built up against him.

JT
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