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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This anime image is not appropriate on
the front page. Questions of art, of education, and of publication,
all require judgement. Judgement in these matters is normal and
necessary and is not of itself something which needs apology. Here
are some reasons why I think it is okay to decide NOT to put this
picture on the front page. This is not to say that it should be
deleted, it is simply not appropriate for the front page – and that
does not constitute censorship.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The commonality of discriminatory
product placement</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Most areas of endeavour exercise care
and some discrimination about their products. It's not that they are
illegal or censored; it's that they are inappropriate in some places.
For example, at a recent exhibition in the Art Gallery of New South
Wales, a very explicit drawing was placed at the far end of the
exhibition and a sign was placed discreetly to inform members of the
public who had to make a choice about whether to view them. In the
case of Wikimedia, there might be gory images, for example, of the
effect of land-mines which explode in children's faces. They are
probably valuable – encyclopedic and even educational – but
would they be appropriate on the front page? Their value is not
diminished by leaving them in the body of the repository and it is
not censorship to make some small efforts necessary to access them.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The woman's body</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you put a large-breasted indigenous
naked woman in an image, people would not be commenting on the size
of her breasts. They would see them as part of the woman herself,
whereas the breasts on which people have commented in this anime are
plainly “designed” for service to (some) viewers. In fact, this
image's offensiveness to many comes not from the size of the breasts
but rather from the whole backbreaking pose of the woman.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Art and education</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If this is a form of art, the question
is not whether or not you like the breasts (there are lots of
breasts in art) but whether the art has its own integrity. That is an
aesthetic question, which is why the colour palette is not under
challenge as it contributes to the integrity of the image. Commons
has criteria for aesthetic quality, but they do not specify or
restrict subject matter. However, whether you like this art or any
component part of it in any image is irrelevant. Audience approval of
the “tits” is only relevant if the image is about titillation.
Only if this is the purpose, does the approval of the pose and body
parts become relevant.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If the image is not about art but is
rather about education, then the subject's body and pose are
misleading, as are the clothes and everything else, even the colour
palette. Above all, if it is about education, then an argument that
its primary purpose to educate about the art form (manga) or the
medium (the software) is spurious and disingenuous.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Thanks,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Whiteghost.ink</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">PS I am a newbie female Ĺustralian Wikipedian and have been following this list for a while but this is my first contribution to it. I really think this is the wrong sort of image for the front page. Apart from all the other arguments, I think it is likely to deter whole demographics (plural) from contributing to any of the WM projects.<br>
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