Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:LF/Pirate

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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The result of the discussion was  nomination withdrawn. Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:40, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

User:LF/Pirate


We really do not need a userbox explicitly supporting illegal activity. J Milburn (talk) 17:23, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep  We allow a lot of other political infoboxes: Userboxes/Politics.  Considering that there is even a political party for this cause, the Pirate party, I think we'd have to delete a lot more userboxes if we followed the same logic.   Black people not sitting at the back of the bus was illegal in the US at one point, and lots of things women do in the US is illegal in Islamic countries, so I don't think we can use legality as a yardstick.  If this were encouraging something uncontroversially illegal like murder, then I could conclude differently, but since it is a matter of active political discourse, I think we need to tolerate this as long as we tolerate any political userboxes (which I would not necessarily be opposed to getting rid of entirely). Gigs (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * You're trying to create a hierarchy; it's ok to support this illegal action, but not to support this illegal action. That's really not something we should be doing. If this said "This user supports the decriminalisation of illegal downloading" or something akin, then that'd be fine; equally, if someone happened to support the decriminalisation of murder, a userbox to that effect wouldn't be the end of the world. J Milburn (talk) 22:03, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think both are valid arguments. I will change it to "This user supports the decriminalisation of illegal downloading". LF (talk) 07:36, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've got no objection to that as a userbox. Please consider my nomination withdrawn. J Milburn (talk) 08:46, 21 July 2012 (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.