[WikiEN-l] Are these userbox templates NPOV?

[John Lee]

Prasad J wrote:

>I noticed that there exists a userbox template {{User America fan}}-
>to indicate that the concerned user supports the U.S. However, there
>is no such userbox template indicate that the concerned user supports
>any of the other 180-odd countries that make up this Earth, eg. ther
>is no {{User Australia fan}} or {{User Japan fan}}. To indicate that a
>user supports any country other than the U.S, he/she has to create a
>userbox-there is no ready-made template. Why is this (apparent)
>favouritsm being shown toward the U.S. Aren't the other 188 countries
>worthy of having supporters? Also there is another 9/11,memoriam
>userbox template, however there is no Nazi Holocaust Memorial
>template. While we all realise that most Wikipedians (especially the
>powers-that-be) are Americans, this sort of bias is hurtful to us
>non-American Wikipedians. I would have taken this user-template matter
>up with someone on Wikipedia, but when I tried to enquire about a
>possible course of action on IRC, a user asked me (on the basis that I
>was questioning the {{User America fan}} template) whether I was an
>Islamofascist. Needless to say this made me a bit apprehensive, so I'm
>posing this question on the mailing list. Any comments/views would be
>appreciated. Thanks.
>
>PS-No offence intended to American Wikipedians.
>  
>
Quoth the cabal line, "{{USER AMERICA FAN}} DIVISIVE SPEEDY NOW HUR HUR 
HUR". (If you don't get it, it means that the [[cabal]] considers such 
templates wrong and wants them deleted; see [[WP:DRVU]].) Me? I couldn't 
care less about userboxes, except for the really blatantly divisive ones.

John