[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

Thu Nov 30 21:15:40 UTC 2006

Hee hee. I love godkings.

On 11/30/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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