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Keep I don't see it as particularly inflammatory. Wanting to restoring the tsar is just a little conservative, and there is no problem with it. It is just like some ppl desiring to make UK a republic (which I remotely recall there is a userbox for that somewhere).
Chimeric Glider (
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19:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The old tsarist rule was in no way comparable to the Nazi Germany. It's a fallacious analogy. Now if you say that someone makes a userbox to "restore the regime of
Joseph Stalin" it would be like the resoring the Nazi rule in Germany. But in terms of atrocity the tsars are totally dwarfed by the governments that replaced them. What would the restoration of the tsar do today? The system of
capitalism in Russia would not change and I doubt it would be any more oppressive than the Putin administration.
Chimeric Glider (
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19:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Godwin's law doesn't work here, Otolemur. Keep - I can't see how it can possibly be any more inflammatory than userboxes such as "This user is a Fascist."--
WaltCip (
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23:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep - User is expressing a political position, nothing more. There are any number of other userboxes doing basically the same thing.
John Carter (
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15:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep as non-inflammatory. I suggest that the nom be sensitive to other cultures before comparing a part of their history with the Nazi. --
Lenticel(
talk)09:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
This userbox is not inflammatory to you, this userbox is not imaflammatory to the Tsar worshipers. But this userbox is inflammatory to those people whose ancestors were killed by the Tsar. This userbox is inflammatory to the peasants died in hunger in the Tsarist regime while the Tsar was busy for his personal gain. This userbox is inflammatory to those people died in hunger before the
October Revolution. What about those who opposed the Tsar and repressed by the Tsar? This userbox is inflammatory to those who died by the Okhrona. I will suggest you to familiarize yourself with the history of Tsarist Russia by reading some historical documents, not by reading a pamphlet released by the
Propagandaministerium of the
Central Intelligence Agency. Otolemur crassicaudatus (
talk)
18:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
I'm as liberal as you can be, but anyone who learned history of Russia can distinguish between the mildly repressive tsarist regime (which even let Lenin read books in prison) and the totalitarian reign of
Joseph Stalin and his
gulags that claimed the lives of 40 million people.
Chimeric Glider (
talk)
18:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
One other thing that i should mention. As an israeli of
Ukrainian Jewish origin i am also under the category of someone who's ancestors were persecuted by the tsar (e.g.
May Laws), and even so i see nothing inflammatory to have a new tsar in russia under a constitutional monarchy. --
Oren neu dag (
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19:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep. In my experience, the general rule is that political userboxes are acceptable (at least for non-admins) provided that they do not attack or denigrate a particular group either explicitly or implicitly. Some, of course, would like to see all such userboxes removed, but this is not policy, and it is well-known that Wikipedia tolerates things it does not condone.
WaltonOne11:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)reply
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
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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.
Keep I don't see it as particularly inflammatory. Wanting to restoring the tsar is just a little conservative, and there is no problem with it. It is just like some ppl desiring to make UK a republic (which I remotely recall there is a userbox for that somewhere).
Chimeric Glider (
talk)
19:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
The old tsarist rule was in no way comparable to the Nazi Germany. It's a fallacious analogy. Now if you say that someone makes a userbox to "restore the regime of
Joseph Stalin" it would be like the resoring the Nazi rule in Germany. But in terms of atrocity the tsars are totally dwarfed by the governments that replaced them. What would the restoration of the tsar do today? The system of
capitalism in Russia would not change and I doubt it would be any more oppressive than the Putin administration.
Chimeric Glider (
talk)
19:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Godwin's law doesn't work here, Otolemur. Keep - I can't see how it can possibly be any more inflammatory than userboxes such as "This user is a Fascist."--
WaltCip (
talk)
23:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep - User is expressing a political position, nothing more. There are any number of other userboxes doing basically the same thing.
John Carter (
talk)
15:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep as non-inflammatory. I suggest that the nom be sensitive to other cultures before comparing a part of their history with the Nazi. --
Lenticel(
talk)09:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
This userbox is not inflammatory to you, this userbox is not imaflammatory to the Tsar worshipers. But this userbox is inflammatory to those people whose ancestors were killed by the Tsar. This userbox is inflammatory to the peasants died in hunger in the Tsarist regime while the Tsar was busy for his personal gain. This userbox is inflammatory to those people died in hunger before the
October Revolution. What about those who opposed the Tsar and repressed by the Tsar? This userbox is inflammatory to those who died by the Okhrona. I will suggest you to familiarize yourself with the history of Tsarist Russia by reading some historical documents, not by reading a pamphlet released by the
Propagandaministerium of the
Central Intelligence Agency. Otolemur crassicaudatus (
talk)
18:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
I'm as liberal as you can be, but anyone who learned history of Russia can distinguish between the mildly repressive tsarist regime (which even let Lenin read books in prison) and the totalitarian reign of
Joseph Stalin and his
gulags that claimed the lives of 40 million people.
Chimeric Glider (
talk)
18:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
One other thing that i should mention. As an israeli of
Ukrainian Jewish origin i am also under the category of someone who's ancestors were persecuted by the tsar (e.g.
May Laws), and even so i see nothing inflammatory to have a new tsar in russia under a constitutional monarchy. --
Oren neu dag (
talk)
19:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep. In my experience, the general rule is that political userboxes are acceptable (at least for non-admins) provided that they do not attack or denigrate a particular group either explicitly or implicitly. Some, of course, would like to see all such userboxes removed, but this is not policy, and it is well-known that Wikipedia tolerates things it does not condone.
WaltonOne11:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)reply
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.