[WikiEN-l] RachelCorrie Re: WikiEN-l digest, Vol 1 #213 - 15 msgs

[Graham Burnett]

> > 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.

I agree with Ray.

Graham (Quercus Robur)