[WikiEN-l] Arbcom has completely lost its mind

Wed Feb 8 20:31:27 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 2/8/06, SPUI <drspui at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pedophilia_userbox_wheel_war/Proposed_decision#User_pages
>>We have gone from a "live and let live" culture to one of political
>>correctness, where anything that could "bring the project into
>>disrepute" is a bad thing. This just leaves me totally speechless, to
>>the point where I'm considering making my user page more and more
>>"disreputable" until I am blocked.
> 
> Yes. That will certainly help the situation.

It will help me get on with my life... or be bored out of my mind.

> There are reasons these kinds of draconian guidelines are being
> written up - because there is a genuine problem that needs to be
> solved. Maybe you could propose a more constructive way of solving it.

I disagree with the idea that there is a problem with saying one is a 
pedophile on one's user page.