If you don't particularly object to that image
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Naked_Gardening_Day&old…
then I would suggest you have very poor taste and very little sense of what
an encyclopedia, even an online encyclopedia, should look like.
Andreas
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com
wrote:
> I removed it with this explanation:
>
> I've removed the image; I suggest not restoring it (as controversial)
>> unless it is decided by consensus to be the permanent lead image. There is
>> no need to have a sub-standard image in the mean time if a better one can
>> be found (which I think is the case). The photo is a posed shot -
>> apparently promotional(?) - which focuses on the nudity with only a token
>> gesture to gardening. It is gratuitous, in that form, and not a good
>> illustration of the subject.
>
>
> I don't particularly object to the image myself; but it's not a good
> illustration of the topic.
>
> Tom
>
> On 5 April 2012 11:36, Ole Palnatoke Andersen <palnatoke(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
>> Someone might know (or know of) Mark Storey who is gardening on
>>
http://naked.wikia.com/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day - or perhaps
>>
http://naked.wikia.com/wiki/User:Dlj (aka
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dandelion1 ) who uploaded the image?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ole
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Gillian White <whiteghost.ink(a)gmail.com
>>
wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to say...
>>> Right now, on the English Wikipedia main page "did you know"
section, is
>>> "World Naked Gardening Day":
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Gardening_Day
>>> You will note on the talkpage of the article there's been a vigorous
>>> debate about the choice of image used
>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:World_Naked_Gardening_Day This
>>> morning (my time) the image was not there, with [[user:alan liefting]]
>>> working hard to argue against the photo that has now been placed at the
>>> top. I am dismayed on behalf of women and of gardeners too! I have come
>>> across [[User:Supernova Explosion]] before - he seems to use titillating
>>> captions and images to increase the hits to otherwise legitimate 'did
you
>>> know' nominations and is now the user who has been arguing that this
photo
>>> has "consensus" to be included while they wait for a better one to
be found.
>>>
>>> Groan!
>>>
>>> I don't want to get involved in an edit-war about this case, but can
>>> anything be done about this case specifically? Is it the right approach to
>>> remove the image and to ask that the discussion about its appropriateness
>>> be delayed until at least after the DYK link is gone??
>>>
>>> Whiteghost.ink
>>>
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