[WikiEN-l] Userbox fads
Peter Mackay
peter.mackay at bigpond.com
Sun Jan 8 19:34:26 UTC 2006
> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway
> On 1/8/06, Sam Spade <samspade.thomasjefferson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > We agree about harmful or threatening talk page content,
> altho where
> > do we draw the line? I find communism and satanism threatening
> > myself...
>
>
> It's not the espousal of views that is problematic. Saying
> you're a communist or a satanist on your user page is fine
> with me (even a proponent of global warfare in the interests
> of one's country, there are plenty of them around). It's the
> factionalization, achieved by the use of cateogories and
> possibly (though I'm not entirely convinced on this) through
> the "whatlinkshere" mechanism, that is the problem in my view.
Are the existing factions on WP also a problem for you?
Pete, just chasing down the loose ends
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