[Foundation-l] Boycott in ace at wiki

[Mark Williamson]

I'm not sure what's so unreasonable about including an image of an art
work in the article about it. I would not be against the use of the
goatse.cx image in that article, although we'd have to make sure to
not allow it to be used outside of that page (to prevent vandalism).



On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:54 AM,  <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The [[Piss Christ]] article seems to have no real purpose other than to
> display an image that is known to offend. I note that none of the
> references in that article actually display the image and are far more
> informative of the actual controversy surrounding the image. The
> wikipedia article also does not address the image in any way which would
> necessitate displaying it. There is no discussion on the lighting, or
> anything else about the photograph.
>
> One is left wondering why it is that the article [[Goatse.cx]] article
> does not actually show the goatse image.
>
>
>
> Mark Williamson wrote:
>> Have you seen [[Piss Christ]]? How is that different?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:40 AM,  <wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> John Vandenberg wrote:
>>>> in the article about Jesus.
>>>>
>>>> If you haven't noticed, the images of Muhammad on the core articles
>>>> relating to Islam are not created by someone who had a bit too much
>>>> free time on their hands.  The images of Muhammad that we use are
>>>> images of an object which is held in a university library or museum,
>>>> _because_they_are_important_.
>>>>
>>> Those don't appear to be the ones that are being complained about. Its
>>> the Baby Jesus Butt Plug style ones that they have issue with.
>>>
>
>
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