Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Whoop whoop pull up's Columbus userboxes

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The result of the discussion was delete Columbus evil, no consensus to delete the other two. JohnCD (talk) 17:44, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Whoop whoop pull up's Columbus userboxes


All of these violate WP:POLEMIC. To quote from the linked page: ...statements attacking or vilifying groups of editors, persons, or other entities. In this case the userboxes attack Christopher Columbus (WP:POLEMIC doesn't say that the person being attacked has to be a living person for it to apply). I could probably G10 them, but maybe MFD is a safer path. --Jakob (talk) 15:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep the first, less certain on the other two. The idea that Columbus committed what we would today call crimes against humanity is not uncommon among modern scholars. I believe your reading of WP:POLEMIC is too broad, and could be interpreted to prevent expression of negative opinions on just about anything. That said, the second userbox is excessive, and I'm not really sure it's worth keeping. I'm not sure about the third one. --BDD (talk) 17:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep, given that there seems to be any number of other negative UBXs currently around. A skim of WP:UBXG revealed e.g.: User:LightSpectra/Userboxes/CM, User:Giants2012/MPAA, User:Giants2012/RIAA, User:Jdaniels15/politics, User:Eternal dragon/Userboxes/CelebrityPoliticians, User:UBX/Christian Rock sucks, User:Doublediapason/userboxes/tvneg3, User:Finemann/Userboxes/Chickflick, User:UBX/Not blink-182, User:UBX/Not GD.  It Is Me Here  t /  c  22:54, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * These don't seem to follow Userboxes, which does discourage, if not forbid, "expression of negative opinions on just about anything". I also found other user boxes which don't follow the guideline. Perhaps it's not enforced very often, and perhaps the consensus behind it isn't strong. &mdash; rybec   05:25, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Neutral on the first ("crimes against humanity") and third ("damnatio memoriae"), but delete the second ("evil") as exceedingly divisive/combative. -- Black Falcon (talk) 07:32, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


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