From: Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:36:20 +0000
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:34:19 -0800, "Tony Jacobs"
<gtjacobs(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
It bothers me that we consider it our place to
draw that line. Can we
please just ban political userboxes already, and avoid having to make
calls
about why being a Nazi is so much worse than
supporting [YOUR LEAST
FAVORITE
REGIME HERE]?
Not even close.
That user's page contained:
(Slipknot) This User is a Maggot
(GRRR!) This User thinks copyright/fair use is a bitch
(image) This User disagrees with the existance of WP:Point because
Wikipedia is not censored
(swastika) This User is a Nazi
(image of raised middle finger) This User's middle name is offensive
and he honestly couldn't care less about you
(BOMB!) The only sport this User plays is Yo Momma
The user has less than a dozen mainspace edits, several of which were
re-introducing unsourced images removed from the article by others.
The user has edited mainspace once since September.
The user has a history of copyright violations and has been blocked
for vandalism.
We have already wasted more time discussing this than the user is
worth to the project, on that evidence. It's worth debating the likes
of SPUI and nobs01 because they are as productive as they can be
maddening. This one? I think not.
Personally, I wasn't discussing that user at all, but the principle of
tolerating some political userboxes and not others.
GTB
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