On 11 October 2010 15:56, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:

As for GerardM's comment - I think PM brought it up to illustrate the problem, not because he thought this was the only example. It isn't a purely theoretical issue, there are actual cases that make policy development an important concern.

Speaking as a rabid free speech advocate for a moment:

Any of the home-made pornlike images, even assuming educational value, should be subject to really quite stringent checking of provenance. (Bot-checking of Flickr uploads doesn't cut it - and we do have pics like this that have had that little checking.) Possibly up to the level of paperwork filed with WMF, I dunno. But we are supposed to be a somewhat curated repository, after all.

The level of this should be decided on Commons, but given it's a BLP-like subject area - the possibility of severe reputational harm to living persons - I am quite confident the community can come up with something workable that does the right thing but provides suitable examples of early 21st century home-made porn that the academics of the future will be profoundly grateful we collected and categorised.

(cc to commons-l - I'd set followup-to there, but Gmail is not that versatile)

- d.