[WikiEN-l] Userbox fads

Sun Jan 8 19:34:26 UTC 2006

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway

> On 1/8/06, Sam Spade <samspade.thomasjefferson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > We agree about harmful or threatening talk page content, 
> altho where 
> > do we draw the line? I find communism and satanism threatening 
> > myself...
> 
> 
> It's not the espousal of views that is problematic.  Saying 
> you're a communist or a satanist on your user page is fine 
> with me (even a proponent of global warfare in the interests 
> of one's country, there are plenty of them around).  It's the 
> factionalization, achieved by the use of cateogories and 
> possibly (though I'm not entirely convinced on this) through 
> the "whatlinkshere" mechanism, that is the problem in my view.

Are the existing factions on WP also a problem for you?

Pete, just chasing down the loose ends