Pro and contra, was: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia-l digest, Vol 1 #839 - 15 msgs

Mon Nov 11 14:22:15 UTC 2002

Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:

>So it's okay to be pro Osama bin Laden, but bad to be anti American? ;-)
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OK, let's open a pro-Osama page. Once all have signed in (especially 
americans), I'll be happy to forward the URL to the FBI. I'm sure 
they'll have shut down wikipedia in no time ;-)

Seriously, while geographic location pages for users are surely OK, 
political statements etc. have *no* use at all on an encyclopedia, with 
the possible exception of a "list of expert users" for some topic. 
"wikipedia:Muslim users" might serve a function. Your *views* should be 
kept either to your user page or to the meta, where we already have 
several "my view on life"-style articles.

Magnus