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

Thu Jun 1 06:20:19 UTC 2006

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using Tony's argument about disrepute (possibly based around the
>> Christian American society view), if a general reader stumbled over "I
>> am interested in Satanism" on a user page they would be just as
>> disgusted.
> 
> 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.
> 

... which is the exact problem of allowing templates to be used for such
boilerplate expression of personal opinions.

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