On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Adam Cuerden <cuer...@gmail.com> wrote: > I, of course, agree that the Félicien Rops image is offensive, and we > have no reason to needlessly offend by putting it in articles where > less-offensive images are equally encyclopedic. However, it's also by > a notable artist, and, as such, can be used to illustrate his work, > the subjects you mention, and other similar cases and thus shouldn't > be permanently deleted. without discussion, as part of an effort to > make Commons entirely child friendly which has little support outside > of Jimbo himself. > > The point is not whether images should or shouldn't be used to > illustrate specific articles, the point is that Wales has decided, on > his own, that all images that are at all pornographic should be > deleted, and has gone about deleting images by notable artists, and > when challenged, stonewalled completely by saying that no discussion > of his actions would be heard until he had finished his disruption, > and all the images were already gone. > > I'm not one of Wikipeda's porn editors. I didn't know these images > existed in advance. But I worried that the new policy would be used to > censor art, and, it turns out, was completely and totally correct. > > -Adam. > >>Well, do you need a picture to explain a dildo? File:Franz von Bayros >>016.jpg is more or less art, but File:Félicien Rops - Sainte-Thérèse.png >>which is used on three Wikipedias to illustrate the use of a dildo has >>some real problems with being offensive to Catholics (Of course Japanese >>or Chinese Catholics don't matter, but they do). Much better to use a >>photo of the woman using a dildo or at least an eye-witness report >>published in a reliable source. The image could, of course, be used >>appropriately to illustrate an article on caricatures or something about >>anti-catholicism. > >>Fred Bauder >
Adam can you please stop starting a new thread for every new point you wish to make. More threads just increases noise. -Chad _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
