From: Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@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@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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