Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:StuffOfInterest/Userboxes/User no death penalty

Wikipedia isn't the place for political advocacy. Unacceptable here, period. Josh Atkins ^{(talk - contribs)} 15:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• Keep. Here we go again. This battle was fought over two years ago and the outcome was to move any advocacy into user space where it becomes clear that it is not a Wikipedia item. People need the ability to show their associations and beliefs. By putting this out front it becomes much harder for those individuals to promote POV editing in articles. If someone shows a box such as this on their user page and then starts editing articles to remove pro death penalty arguments, it will be obvious that they are POV pushing. Also, I do hope the nominator notified [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:StuffOfInterest/Userboxes/User_no_death_penalty all the people] using this box and not just mine since I happend to be the user account where this box was residing. --StuffOfInterest (talk) 15:40, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

:I'm strongly against the death penalty. I used to have this on my userpage. But I couldn't Mfd the pro-death penalty one without Mfding this too. I'm talking about these policies, which, frankly, should be obvious. User:Jatkins/Political UBXs --Josh Atkins ^{(talk - contribs)} 16:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• Keep. This isn't in the Wikipedia space and per the "German solution" consensus reached after the Userbox Wars (and also per my reading of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:StrangerInParadise&diff=prev&oldid=44204142 Jimbo's comments on the matter]). – iridescent 17:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. As was said at the "pro" userbox MfD (here), This, and many userboxes were moved/created in the userspace because of the so called "German solution". I thought that the "German solution" was supposed to keep stuff like this from even being nominated unless it was profane, or "within limitations of extreme controversy (eg: no pro-Nazi or pro-pedophilia userboxes, no solicitations)". This doesn't qualify. You don't have to agree with the message, but you should respect the right for it to be in the userspace. Don't be so eager to censor & ban things! —MJCdetroit ^(yak) 17:12, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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