[Foundation-l] Quran in Sitenotice

Thu Jul 13 16:48:06 UTC 2006

I stand corrected, the SiteNotice shouldn't be used for general good
advice religious or otherwise. My point still stands, though, for
other official areas where good advice is tolerated (say the upload
file MediaWiki message). In these areas, religion shouldn't be used.

On 13/07/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Oldak Quill wrote:
> > Even if the verse were essentually non-religious, a quote from the
> > Qur'an, a religious text, is inappropriate. This verse is blatantly
> > religious though and should be removed as quickly as is possible.
>
> Even if the quote were essentially non-religious, *and* from a
> non-religious text, then it would still be inappropriate for a site
> notice.  To my knowledge, the site notice has never been used to convey
> general good advice or anything of the sort on any project or any
> language.  This is not a matter of religion versus non-religion, it is a
> matter of, well, this is not what the sitenotice is for.
>
> --Jimbo
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