[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

Thu Nov 30 21:34:19 UTC 2006

How many people does a regime have to kill before proclaiming your 
association with it is a bannable offense?

It bothers me that we consider it our place to draw that line.  Can we 
please just ban political userboxes already, and avoid having to make calls 
about why being a Nazi is so much worse than supporting [YOUR LEAST FAVORITE 
REGIME HERE]?

Tony/GTB

>From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:28:32 +0000
>
> > Nobody was banned for being a Nazi. They were banned for proclaiming
> > it on their userpage. Which is disruptive. You are welcome to edit
> > Wikipedia as a Nazi, or as a pedophile, or as anyone else. You are,
> > however, expected not to use Wikipedia as a platform for proclaiming
> > controversial views.
> >
> > What's hard here?
>
>Is everyone displaying any of the userboxes on these pages
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GRBerry/German_userbox_solution#Political_parties
>going to banned?
>
>The only reason I can see for treating Nazis differently from anyone
>else is because people don't like Nazis. It boils down to banning
>someone for being unpopular.
>
>If Wikipedia were based in Germany, it would be an obvious ban for
>breaking the law, but Wikipedia is under US jurisdiction, and the US
>doesn't have any such law.
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