On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Fastfission wrote:
Well, the thing is that your photos weren't
"intended to make a
specific point". If you took pictures of a piece of trash in Crater
Lake, and posted it on the article page with a caption along the lines
of "In recent years, Crater Lake has become full of trash", that would
be an illustration of what he was talking about.
But his solution to remove those photos was to ban all images created
by individuals. Had I been less passionate at the time I wrote, I would
have said his proposal would throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In the end, though, I don't see any necessary reaction to this except
our normal enforcement of NPOV and maybe a little good judgment. It
doesn't take an art historian to know that images can be inherently
manipulative.
Agreed.
Geoff