Should Wikipedia discourage use of smiley Unicode code points in discussions?
 | Please help improve the educational quality of this resource to increase engagement by participants. Any concrete improvements made by February 13, 2026 may allow it to be kept. You may remove {{proposed deletion}} from this resource's source text to contest this proposal, with or without discussion. |
This resource is a wikidebate, a collaborative effort to gather and organize all arguments on a given issue. It is a tool for argument analysis or pro-con analysis. It is not a place to defend your preferred points of view, but original arguments are allowed and welcome. See the Wikidebate guidelines for more.
Wikipedia should discourage use of smiley Unicode code points in discussions
[edit | edit source]Pro
[edit | edit source]
Pro Those code points communicate no ideas that are part of rational argument-based discussion.- Pro Disregarding the above point for the sake of argument, even if one wants to convey emotion, one can use words or non-code-point smileys, such as "love", "oh my gosh", or ":-)" and ":-D".
Con
[edit | edit source]
Con Smileys add human touch.
