Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Mender/Userboxes/BritishNationalism

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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. Spartaz Humbug! 21:58, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

User:Mender/Userboxes/BritishNationalism


See this RfC. A while ago, having this userbox got me into serious trouble: someone decided it meant that I am a white supremacist (which isn't the case). I think this is an example of the type problematic userbox mentioned in that RfC. Also, nationalist and nationalism have multiple meanings, leaving this userbox open to interpretation. Clearly, in that incident, one of us had the wrong meaning. Therefore, this has the potential to cause unnecessary offence and division. I daresay most would say that it was I who had the wrong meaning, therefore this could be in violation of WP:UBCR. Adam9007 (talk) 23:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep - I have long held that Userboxes/Politics/Ideologies should be handled as a whole or not at all. WP:POLEMIC (which many will probably cite), though the first bullet point is too vague to be of any use (and the latter two do not apply) in this case, should be applied consistently, made less vague, or updated to reflect actual practice. — Godsy (TALK CONT ) 01:59, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Falls short of polemics.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:47, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per Godsy. Merely saying "This user embraces position X" is not disruptive because of the position in question; either we should leave all such userboxes, or we should delete all of them, but barring problems with the box itself (e.g. "this box is redundant to another" or "this box's code is unfixably broken"), there's never a reason for MFD to delete one or a few such boxes.  Nyttend (talk) 00:04, 29 August 2018 (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.