On 17/02/2008, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
It is a shame that in this thread we do not have any representatives who might be able to find a compromise which would be satisfactory to the moderate petitioners, while at the same time fulfilling our general desire to not censor Wikipedia.
Jimbo:
The problem is that it is difficult to find a compromise when the petitioners are saying "these images must be removed from Wikipedia completely" - which is what many of them *are* saying... the images can't be "a little bit" in Wikipedia any more than a woman can be "a little bit pregnant"...
On a lighter note (and $DEITY knows this thread could use one!), I have just had described to me the concept of images of Muhammad being "not kosher" :-D