On 30 September 2011 12:06, Tobias Oelgarte <[email protected]>wrote:
> Am 30.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: > > --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldari<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: Ryan Kaldari<[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial > judgement, and image filters > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, 30 September, 2011, 0:28 > > > > > > On 9/28/11 11:30 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> This post appears mostly to be the tone argument: > >> > >> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument > >> > >> - rather than address those opposed to the WMF (the body perceived to > >> be abusing its power), Sue frames their arguments as badly-formed and > >> that they should therefore be ignored. > > Well, when every thoughtful comment you have on a topic is met with > > nothing more than chants of "WP:NOTCENSORED!", the tone argument seems > > quite valid. > > > > Ryan Kaldari > > Quite. > > I have had editors tell me that if there were a freely licensed video of > a rape (perhaps a historical one, say), then we would be duty-bound to > include it in the article on [[rape]], because Wikipedia is not censored. > > That if we have a freely licensed video showing a person defecating, it > should be included in the article on [[defecation]], because Wikipedia is > not censored. > > That if any of the Iraqi beheading videos are CC-licensed, NOTCENSORED > requires us to embed them in the biographies of those who were recently > beheaded. > > That if we have five images of naked women in a bondage article, and none > of men having the same bondage technique applied to them, still all the > images of naked women have to be kept, because Wikipedia is not censored. > > And so on. > > Andreas > > > I guess you misunderstood those people. Most likely they meant, that > there should be no rule against such content, if it is an appropriate > Illustration for the subject. <snip> No, I think he understood it just fine. I have seen similar arguments in several places on various projects: not just that it could be acceptable, but that there is a duty to include such information in articles that overrides editorial judgment, regardless of quality, source or other factors. Risker _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
