[WikiEN-l] request to Jimbo for out-of-process deletion of image

[Justin Cormack]

On 3 Apr 2006, at 12:58, Steve Bennett wrote:

> On 4/3/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FWIW, Rama got a friend to take some nice montages of magazines in a
>>> store - but did they go into the article? No. There is something
>>> fundamentally wrong when we're willing to accept a potentially  
>>> offensive
>>> copyvio (which we justify under "fair use") over a neutral, Free  
>>> image.
>
>> That said, people have a hard time accepting "replace fair use" at  
>> the
>> best of times. I've been wandering through various articles where
>> we're bound to have free images in the last couple of days and
>> replacing the fair-use ones with free. It's surprising how many of
>> these changes are reverted on sight...
>
> IMHO, raising "copyvio" or "free use" arguments in this case is sort
> of missing the point. We should be adamant about deleting the image
> because we don't want child porn in Wikipedia (or, to be more precise,
> we don't want people to think that we have child porn in Wikipedia).
> If the same image was public domain, what would we do?

If it was free content created for the encyclopaedia I would be more
inclined to think there might be some merit in it.

As its just been pasted in off the internet there is no reason to even
think about keeping it.

It appears that as a cartoon it is probably not illegal in the UK under
the recent child protection acts (although it might be covered by wider
obscenity laws). It is however probably illegal in New Zealand, so if
someone there would like to report it to the police I imagine it will
disappear rather quickly. The publicity will not be nice.

Justinc