Wikipedia recently banned its editors from including any messages of support for traditional Marriage in their userboxes, but will still allow messages of support for same-sex marriage.
Wikipedia is staffed by volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia articles. Each volunteer has the opportunity to communicate information about themselves via a “user box”. Some editors have used that box as an opportunity to proclaim their support for traditional marriage.
But other users recently raised the userboxes with pro-traditional Marriage Messages as an issue to Wikipedia, leading to a dialogue among editors and Wikipedia.
“Delete” advocates generally argued that pro-traditional marriage messages are “inflammatory or divisive” and “propaganda or advocacy” and thus, violate Wikipedia’s guidelines on userbox content restrictions.
- Orgonebox voted “Delete” : “Divisive, hateful bilge that has no business here.”
- StarM voted “Delete”: “Wikipedia is no place for advocacy toward bigotry.”
- Lev!vich voted “Delete”: “imagine if it was anti-interracial marriage. Some things, just no.”
Lev!vich further went on to argue that pro-traditional marriage messages suggest “that marriage between gay people is not marriage, and this is discrimination based on sexual preference, a type of discrimination that I personally disagree with, but more importantly that the entire anglosphere has outlawed. That’s evidence of the userbox being divisive…”
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