The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: delete. ‑Scottywong | comment _ 06:04, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Gr8opinionater/Userboxes/Italian Fascist

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Offensive userboxes that violate WP:POLEMIC (“Very divisive or offensive material not related to encyclopedia editing”) and WP:UBCR (“Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive”). Advocacy of fascism does not seem appropriate on this encyclopedia, and similar fascist infoboxes have been deleted. Toa Nidhiki05 14:22, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete Robert McClenon (talk) 14:45, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per WP:POLEMIC and a violation of WP:UBCR which says Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, self-promotion, or advertising. Britishfinance (talk) 15:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fascists are not welcome here. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 17:44, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Slippery slope – are we going to delete all political userboxes? No, per RfC. wumbolo ^^^ 20:52, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - If we're going to allow political expression on userpages, we shouldn't be in the business of deciding which political views are acceptable. –dlthewave ☎ 22:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, WP:NOFUCKINGNAZIS. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:49, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. While there is no bright-line, I believe this is solidly in violation of WP:UBCR. There is no slippery slope any more than deleting PROMO articles is a slippery slope, and we don't have to host these userboxes any more than we need PROMO and non-NCORP articles because we have articles on companies. Alpha3031 (t • c) 04:59, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Political expression must be treated universally. Either ban all kinds of political expression or allow them all. Merely listing ones political stance is not a polemic. Offense is subjective and cannot be the standard for a decision like this. --Hecato (talk) 10:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The slippery slope or WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS argument doesn't fly. WP:IAR does. Get this shit off Wikipedia.--WaltCip (talk) 11:54, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep "Italian Fascist" and "Francoist", Delete "Neo-Fascist" for using recognized hate symbol in combination with "neo" and "fascist" - far too disruptive. It basically becomes an advocacy of racial violence and is like flashing "I want to murder you" in the face of unwitting visitors to the user page. The others should be kept because they don't rise to the level of obviously supporting Naziism and the problem of a slippery slope, arbitrariness, and a popularity contest. —DIYeditor (talk) 01:37, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Reminder that this is not a vote and that person opinions over whether or not all political infoboxes should be allowed do not matter here. The question is whether or not these inboxes violate existing policy. Toa Nidhiki05 02:08, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- To me, precedents and whether a rule is too vague to apply are always relevant in deciding how to apply it. —DIYeditor (talk) 02:30, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Not all political philosophies are the same. These are not acceptable. Drmies (talk) 18:12, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I strongly believe that we should delete all POV userboxes. Whether about politics, feminism, the environment, sports, favourite TV shows or whatever, it is a flagrant breach of WP:NOTSOAPBOX which should have been ended long ago. Sadly, it has now gone too far to rein in easily, so every time that anything like that is proposed there are howls of outrage, mostly based on a misrepresentation of WP:USERPAGE as allowing a free-for-all.

So pending the wider cull, I support deleting any such userboxes, especially Nazi boxes. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:53, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.