[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

2021-07-02 Thread William Chan
The Chinese issue: I don't see the Chinese community of any hope considering the mainland Chinese community is now basically a rotten Apple, with acts of stalking against Hong Kong and Taiwan editors, plus history revisionism being carried out within articles by mainland editors ans tolerated by

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

2021-07-02 Thread Gnangarra
lots of basic human rights are being trampled on everyday, its not uncommon for mainland chinese editors who report on behalf of communities from Taiwan and Hong Kong yet they never get challenged for doing so on movement lists. So where is the line, can it ever be a very finely detail or will

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

2021-07-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga
Friendly reminder: Slavery is against human rights. From: Yaroslav Blanter Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 2:22 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag I do not know. Whoever puts a userbox "I support slavery" on

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

2021-07-02 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
I do not know. Whoever puts a userbox "I support slavery" on their user page on the English Wikipedia invites a fast block does not matter what their edits in the articles are. I do not think there is a universal answer to this question. Yaroslav On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:31 PM Satdeep Gill

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

2021-07-02 Thread Peter Southwood
The problem is which political opinions would be acceptable on a user page, and who gets to decide this. We are expected to edit neutrally, so expressing a political opinion on a user page could be considered a declaration of partisanship which could extend to editing behaviour. Cheers,