Tony Sidaway (minorityreport@bluebottle.com) [050215 12:04]:
Yes, we must get it right. But there are no intrinsically unpleasant images, just ones that are useful in an article and ones that are not. I've already explained why I think autofellatio is an excellent case of an article that needs a photographic illustration. We should be able to display that illustration without apologising, and it really would help if people would learn how to operate their web browsers.
One reason it needs a photograph, as opposed to a line drawing, is to demonstrate at a glance that it's actually possible!
Expecting people to learn how to use their web browsers is possibly asking a bit much - almost 90% still use Internet Explorer (though less on Wikipedia). A preference to disable all images *is currently in the works*.
- d.