[WikiEN-l] cancelation of the deletion review of the satanism userbox

[geni]

On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes.  See for instance here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Userboxes/Religion&oldid=52889031
>
> A project page in the Wikipedia namespace provided a satanist template
> (now deleted and under review) residing in the template namespace.
>
> To the outside world (and to me) it thus appears that the Wikipedia
> project is providing all users with a facility to label themselves
> according to beliefs, and by implication, encouragement to do so.

No it doesn't. The outside would doesn't see that page. The outside
world sticks to articles.

A far better canandidate for that claim would be say:

http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Or

http://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destp%C3%AAk

> This is especially problematic with disreputable religions and
> pseudoreligions (I apologise if this offends American sensibilities
> attuned to First Amendment absolutism) such as Satanism, Scientology
> and the like.


What exactly is disreputable about say LaVeyan Satanism?

-- 
geni