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

[Jesse W]

On Jun 1, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Peter Ansell wrote:
> So we can promote things
Could you expand on this?  AFAIK, the topic under discussion was a 
template, intended to be placed on user pages, containing the text: 
"This user is a Satanist" (IIRC).  Is this intended to promote 
something?  Is this intended to promote the improvement of some article 
in Wikipedia?  Generally, most things in the non-article space parts of 
Wikipedia are designed to assist in writing the encyclopedia, or 
reflect on such writing.  Unless I am mistaken, very few if any things 
on Wikipedia are designed to promote anything, except possibly 
Wikipedia itself.  I look forward to you expanding on what you mean by 
this.

<major sniping>

> Wikipedia should allow editors no matter what background they come 
> from.
And (baring the Islamic issue discussed here ad nausaum), what evidence 
do you have that Wikipedia does not?  Deleting a template is not 
blocking anyone from editing the encyclopedia, unless I am seriously 
out of touch here...

<further major sniping>

Jesse Weinstein