So how do we make things like this go away? The trouble here is that a shocking number, maybe an outright majority, of users seem to think "free speech" on Wikipedia is a higher value than actually writing the encyclopedia. I don't think ignoring their views--misguided though they may be--will improve the encyclopedia, I think it'll make things worse.
SCZenz
On 1/5/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
My position in short
We are here to write an encyclopedia. First before all.
Userbox are interesting if they are related to Wikipedia activity and growth.
Wikipedians mood IS actually important to the community building and interacting. Which browsers are used is also an interesting information to know how Wikipedia appears to readers, detect bugs... Which language the user manage or which project he participates to is also interesting for project management and editors daily interactions.
All this is well and good.
Which hand is used to masturbate self is of no interest within wikipedia activity, except if one is actually masturbating himself while writing a message on another user talk page. Is that related to Wikipedia ? Is that helping the community ? No. So, it should go away.
Having a template stating something against our goals, such as {{User allow fairuse}} has a name : it is trolling. Trolling has benefits... sometimes. But if it disrupts the community too much (and generate thousands of mails on a mailing list, huge loss of time), then, it should just go away.
ant
SCZenz wrote:
How about {{User allow fairuse}}? That seems to be against pretty much everything Wikipedia stands for. If we have so many users who think they can *vote* in an unreasonable copyright policy, maybe we need unilateral admin action after all.
On 1/5/06, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I have not followed ANY of the discussion on userbox. Have no idea what is going on, no idea who supports what, no idea what is going on.
However, I just speedy deleted {{User masturbation-left}}.
It contained this image : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Masturbationsm.jpg
Sorry if that appears like an admin abuse or whatever, but imho, this is just ***ridiculous***.
ant
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