User talk:Bruce176

I sympathize with your position, having fought to keep certain particularly misogynistic materials off of this site. The vast bulk of content on Wikipedia is suitable for all consumers (and improving daily), but so far as I know, there is no kid-safe version of Wikipedia. I'm sure you are aware that in this day and age, there are many more sources of information of this sort than there have ever been before. Indeed, even if the article you nominated were to be deleted, articles on topics such as -- would remain, and would be far less likely candidates for deletion. I hope that we can work out a means to make the unobjectionable knowledge gathered on Wikipedia available in an environment that would be useful to people of all ages. BD2412 T 21:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Poor rationales
You seem to have not grasped what we our goals are here. We are not here to support anything, to censor anything, or to send messages. Moreover, Wikipedia does not have "our troops" or "our youth". Please familiarize yourself with our neutral point of view policy, our Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors policy, and our Wikipedia is not a soapbox policy. If your goal is to censor things, to support one country's armed forces, or to prescribe children's thinking, Wikipedia is not the place to pursue it. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. The irony is that there are good reasons to delete some of those articles. But by focussing on Bowdlerizing Wikipedia you have missed them entirely. Uncle G 04:44, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * "we need to support our troops"
 * "sends the wrong message to our youth"
 * "should not promote obscenity"

Edited comments and personal attacks
Just FYI, it's generally considered rude to edit users' comments on talk pages (as you did above with BD2412's), especially if you do so without describing the changes you have made. I'd also like to ask you to be respectful to others, even when you disagree with them; when you call people "perverts", as you did on Articles_for_deletion/Cleveland_steamer, it's unpleasant and counterproductive. -Colin Kimbrell 22:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * My page, my rules. It's time to clean up the obscenity on wikipedia, and that begins here. --Bruce