[WikiEN-l] A novel policy interpretation

Fred Bauder fredbaud at ctelco.net
Sun Feb 5 17:33:45 UTC 2006


Probably better to watch it here than in federal court. Now of,  
course, should the Mafia decide to announce themselves and edit here,  
we would have to let them. They are so powerful.

Fred

On Feb 5, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:

> [[WP:AN]] currently contains this announcement:
>
> "The userbox Template:User pedophile [...] is a great way of
> identifying those users who consider themselves to be pedophiles. I
> plan on indefinitely blocking any user who includes this template.
> I've already blocked the only user to include this template [...]
> Wikipedia has no obligation to permit deviants to edit. If a someone
> has sexual thoughts about children, keep it to yourself and stay off
> Wikipedia. I can't even imagine the PR nightmare that the Wikimedia
> Foundation would face if articles were being written by
> self-identified pedophiles."
>
> I can just tell this one's going to be a fun argument to watch.
>
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> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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