Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User autistic

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 * 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  keep. TBrandley (what's up) 09:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:User autistic


Malformed userbox with only 4 uses. Corresponding category was deleted in 2007 and re-deleted in 2012, so I don't think this is wanted. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:19, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * keep. A self declaration of autism is acceptable, and welcome, because autism is something that is relevant to editing (& positively in many ways). They may require, or work best with, a more considerate, focused, less scatter-gun interaction. The reason for deletion of the category was based on the lack of perceived need to find self identifying autistic editors, and explicitly did not deny the appropriateness of the userboxes. Userboxes can be useful without autocategorisation. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:33, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * keep. I designed that originally to use the Moebius rainbow symbol as devised by "oddizm" who ran an information page on living autistic (her page has since been deleted). I was told not to use her symbol because she was selling t-shirts and there was possible copyright infringement. I did get permission from Ari Ne'eman recently to use the ASAN infinity rainbow, I just have to take time to fix it up. I don't see why this can't be used by editors who have been diagnosed as autistic (as in fact I was in 1984) as well as by self-identified autistic editors. Thanks, --Bluejay Young (talk) 08:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The userbox fully meets the description "a communicative notice about the user, in order to directly (or even indirectly) help Wikipedians collaborate more effectively on articles." Thincat (talk) 12:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)


 * 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.