<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayen466@yahoo.com">jayen466@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat Commons as a gallery for non-notable art.<div><br></div><div>It's an educational project, not a vehicle for self-promotion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A.<br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br><br>Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.<br>Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the restriction that a file has to be educational.<br>
<br><br>And as a girl (or more a long-grown woman) with no real interest in mangas my opinion is that the image has nice colours, is cleanly made and in general aesthetically pleasing. Only complaint: it is a bit kitschy.<br>
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 16/5/11, Ryan Kaldari <i><<a href="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">rkaldari@wikimedia.org</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Ryan Kaldari <<a href="mailto:rkaldari@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">rkaldari@wikimedia.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons<div class="im"><br>To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <<a href="mailto:commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
</div>Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 14:04<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chris McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="http://mc/compose?to=cmckenna@sucs.org" target="_blank">cmckenna@sucs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is about?<br>
The image is not pornographic, exploitative, illegal or otherwise<br>
inapropriate for featured picture status.<br></blockquote><div><br>The image is also not artistically, historically, or culturally significant, unlike all the other examples you cited. The only reason it's featured is because it's sexually arousing to anime fanboys who happen to dominate the culture of Wikimedia Commons. I don't need to crawl into a semantic rabbit-hole to defend this observation. I think its obvious to any reasonable person. If the image would be embarrassing to pull up in front of a classful of students, it shouldn't be on the Commons Main Page.<br>
<br>Ryan Kaldari<br></div></div>
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