On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I'm not thrilled about Wikipe-Tan, but the one that I identified specifically ("Gothic Lolita") is particularly troublesome because of the implications of the term "Lolita", which has a definite sexual meaning of the type that Wikipedia probably doesn't want itself associated, even indirectly. And no, I don't think that's age-specific; even young people know that's a loaded term.
While I don't disagree that this may be perceived as having unfortunate implications, I'd like to point everyone toward
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lolita_fashion
which may be enlightening. Whether a gothic lolita Wikipe-tan is a good thing for the project or not may be up for debate, but I hope that no one gets the impression that whoever created that image was intending it to be sexual--I sincerely doubt there was ever that sort of intention.