[WikiEN-l] cancelation of the deletion review of the satanism userbox

Thu Jun 1 02:44:13 UTC 2006

On 5/31/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's a difference, at least to the world outside Wikipedia, between
> > an individual Wikipedian making that personal statement on a part of
> > the site, and Wikipedia as an institution giving him a neat little
> > badge for the purpose of making the proclamation.
>
> Wikipedia as an institution is not doing that (Don't know of any
> foundation created userboxes off hand). And:
>
> Evidences?

I think he was simply referring to allowing these to reside in the
Template namespace, rather than simply having the editor write their
beliefs or preferences on their user page.  I think he's saying there
is a difference between the two.  Basically right?
--LV