Thanks for the response...
On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:56 AM, Peter Ansell wrote:
On 6/1/06, Jesse W jessw@netwood.net wrote:
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.
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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...
You make it seem like the issue about templates and articles are two totally different issues.
Er, I asked for two things. 1) What did you mean by "promote"? 2) What evidence do you have that Wikipedia is not allowing people to edit because of their background? Unless I am misunderstanding, you didn't provide either of these in your response. I look forward to you doing so.
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Calling my post major sniping seems very premature when you didn't understand that.
As for the comment about "major sniping", that was a typo. ;-) I meant to say <large parts of the original message removed>. Sorry about that.
Continuing to wonder about "promote", Jesse Weinstein