[WikiEN-l] User:RachelCorrie

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Mar 18 07:18:19 UTC 2003


Jesse Alter wrote:

> The user RachelCorrie is using their user page to show photos of 
> Rachel Corrie and links about her death. She died while playing 
> chicken with an Israeli bulldozer, in protest of the destruction of 
> Palestinian settlement. The user has made no contributions other than 
> turning their user page into a non-NPOV memorial to Rachel Corrie. I 
> move that the user be banned. If their IP can be matched to another 
> user, I think that the user should be warned against doing that in the 
> future.

User pages are not subject to the same NPOV requirements as articles. 
 Some of this material could even be put on a biographical article about 
Rachel Corrie.  Clearly she had the courage to back up her beliefs with 
her life when she protested the criminal destruction of Palestinian homes.
  




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