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

Fri Jun 2 00:30:39 UTC 2006

On 6/2/06, Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sean Barrett wrote:
> >>>>>> If you honestly believe, in this society, that there is no difference between
> >>>>>> saying "I am a Christian" and "I am a Satanist", you are either being wilfully
> >>>>>> ignorant, or disruptive to make a point.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, as far as I'm concerned the only difference between Christianity
> >>>>> and Satanism (whether Theistic or LaVeyan) is that Christianity was made
> >>>>> up longer ago...
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, as far as I'm concerned the only difference between you and a
> >>>> banned troll is that you're not banned yet...
> >>>
> >>> Does [[WP:NPA]] apply to the mailing list?
> >
> > If it did, your attack on religious believers would eliminate the
> > difference between you and a banned troll.
>
> There's an awful lot of difference between attacking an individual and
> 'attacking' a belief system.

This thread was started with a statement that a particular belief
system would bring wikipedia into disrepute. Attacking people because
they are discussing this, and equating them with trolls, together with
a threat to ban them if they feel like discussing anymore, doesn't
exactly serve to keep a community together. Try to see this discussion
in good faith.

Peter Ansell