User talk:Hermitian
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[edit] Rookiee
User:Rookiee's page listed a cause ("boyloving") that he advocated; his signature contained a mirror image of "boylover". If I understand correctly, he was not advocating breaking laws, but changing them so that certain acts become legal; but regardless, this was still advocacy.
Advocacy on Wikipedia user pages is at best tolerated; remember that WP:NOT clearly states that Wikipedia user pages is not web hosting. The reason is that the general public does not necessarily distinguish well between encyclopedic articles, and user pages expressing individual opinions. They appear from the same site, there are internal links between the two, and so on. Basically, the average person thinks that if some Wikipedia user advocates a cause, it is somewhat endorsed by Wikipedia.
Remember that the goal is to build a free encyclopedia. User pages are not a right, they are meant as a tool for reaching that goal. If such or such user page, is an impediment to the goal (for instance, by attracting controversy without helping in the construction of encyclopedic content), it has to go. If the user remakes again the same user page, then he has to go too.
The obvious answer, of course, it not to put one's personal advocacy on one's user page. I'm personally involved in certain political actions (in the broad sense: influencing policy through information, not in a partisan sense), yet you'd be hard-pressed to know which by looking at my Wikipedia user page or signature.
Apart from that, I have to link whatsoever with this Perverted Justice site. I don't even hail from the US, and I bash nobody. David.Monniaux 15:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
