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.
<major sniping>
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...
<further major sniping>
Jesse Weinstein
You make it seem like the issue about templates and articles are two
totally different issues. I was pointing out that by putting forward
the "lets not offend" anyone argument just because a template is bad
while editors are encouraged to edit the article on the topic is not
consistent. The inflammatory argument is simply put down as someones
point of view. Calling my post major sniping seems very premature when
you didn't understand that. I wasn't talking about articles, I was
emphasising the irony between delete satanist templates and justifying
the deletion using NPOV, when they are infact not neutral themselves.
Peter Ansell