2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)yahoo.com>
There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat Commons
as a gallery for
non-notable art.
It's an educational project, not a vehicle for self-promotion.
A.
Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.
Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the
restriction that a file has to be educational.
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.
lg, Cecil
--- On *Mon, 16/5/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>* wrote:
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia
Commons
To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 14:04
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chris McKenna
<cmckenna@sucs.org<http://mc/compose?to=cmckenna@sucs.org>
wrote:
Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is about?
The image is not pornographic, exploitative, illegal or otherwise
inapropriate for featured picture status.
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.
Ryan Kaldari
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