[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

Thu Nov 30 21:11:23 UTC 2006

Michael Bimmler wrote:
> I just came across the following userpage
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blind14
> which shows a "This user is a nazi"-userbox quite prominently,
> depicting a swastika in a clearly non-enzyclopedic contect (i.e. as a
> personal non-scientific reference / symbol of adherence). I'm not sure
> about legislation in US but I wonder whether this could be an offense
> against law. Feel free to comment on whether it is a violation of
> Wikipedia policies, I won't comment this, as I didn't take part in the
> Great Userboxes War.

I indef blocked and deleted the page.  Why are we even talking about this?

--Jimbo