On 27/05/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/27/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
That doesn't seem like a fair policy; you seem to believe that it's a good idea to ban somebody from using the name they wish, even if it's their actual given name, just because somebody else finds it offensive for some (culturally-specific) reason.
Yes, I do. I'm sorry for Dick Head and Johnny Bigbollocks, and especially Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat and even Colin Powell. That nice girl Lynndie Enland especially. But sometimes you have to put the group interest ahead of your own.
Steve
What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperButchBitch ? Read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_and_femme - it was pretty clearly meant in that context, so banning her for being gay was pretty out of it
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive...
-Selina