[WikiEN-l] "I want to at least kill the responsible person."

[Wily D]

On Feb 4, 2008 4:36 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/08, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you possess a technical solution or are aware of how to construct
> > one, please feel free to suggest it.  If it's viable and doesn't
> > present a significant problem to our attempts to be a quality, neutral
> > encyclopaedia, maybe we can <s>railroad the discussion to push it
> > through</s> develop a solid consensus so we can deal with the actual
> > article, which is lousy.
>
> I'm guessing a "religion" drop-down menu in Special:Preferences is right out. :p
>
> Seriously I doubt most of us can fathom how anybody can take so much
> offense to any particular image, regardless of its content. I know I
> can't.
>
> —C.W.
>
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Of course, plenty of Muslims are not offended by such images either -
images of Muhammad appear in almost every other language version of
Wikipedia, including Farsi, where the overwhelming majority of editors
are likely to be practicing Muslims.  But having to go to
"special:preferences" is not much reduced from adding something to
your monobook - and excludes IP editors, who make up a significant
percentage of objectors.

WilyD