On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Arnaud HERVE
<arnaudherve@x-mail.net> wrote:
On 12/09/2011 02:43, Sarah Stierch wrote:
One thing Wikimedia as a whole suffers from is no
"solidity" when it comes to policy and rules. Everything seems
that it can be adapted, broken, changed, manipulated..etc. I think
that's a problem.
Absolutely. I think in this case the real troublemaker is the admin,
and the original poster is almost an innocent boy trying to post
something he deems erotic or daring. By the admin's behaviour we see
that the original poster is almost encouraged to behave like a bad
little boy.
It is obvious that a photo of the vulva should show the vulva. If
the admin doesn't understand that then he is hopeless and must go
back to highschool for several years. He is certainly not
scientifically literate enough to hold a position on Wikipedia.
I agree that this image had many problems and keeping it does not really make sense. That is the reason that I asked the admin to review his decision.
You don't have to discuss with an admin who doesn't understand that
a photo of an organ must show the organ.
You don't have to discuss with an admin who doesn't understand that
photos of anatomy should be as devoid of erotic content as possible.
Democracy should not go that far as to negociate with total
incompetence.
Either this admin is really stupid, and should never have made it to
his position in WP, or he is being perverse with the vulva page.
If find it very difficult to believe that a person literate enough
to make it to the position of admin on WP would be illiterate enough
to not understand that a photo named vulva in the vulva page should
show a vulva, and should avoid evocation of private life
promiscuity.
I know this administrators work on several projects, and I don't think that is an accurate description of his work in general. He regularly closes deletion discussions, and will close them for deletion about sexual content as he did in some of the other ones put up for deletion recently.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:April_after_!st_act.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Hairpenis.jpg
The reason that I see the issue with controversial content as a problem of systemic biasis that is that it has taken hold of WMF projects in general. If you look at the full body of his work, this admin truly is trying to follow policy and the customs of Commons and WMF projects in general. IMO, the policies need to be tweaked so that admins like him will have better policy to work with. And we need a broader group of people commenting in all deletion discussions so that we get a more globally representative view of what is appropriate for Commons to have on site.
Sydney
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