Tony Sidaway wrote:
Bill Konrad said:
It's a bit of a broad exageration to claim ALL editors would have to bowlderize ALL of their edits.
No, it's absolutely true. Just one goes and vandalizes the article on the American Revolution, on one day, and you'll have school governors freaking out.
Huh? What does the ever-present problem with vandalism have to do with placing images potentially offensive to many behind a link instead of inline (or what you seem to characterize as "bowlderizing")?
Whether some articles might contain offensive vandalism for a short time is a very different matter from what is accepted as appropriate content by the community (and by extension by the MediaWiki foundation). Both may pose problems to school administrators and parents regarding the suitability of Wikipedia for children, but the vast majority of vandalism is not much different from what is scrawled on bathroom walls or heard in the schoolyard. Given that most such vandalism is quickly removed, it is of an entirely different nature than more or less permanent content sanctioned by the community.
Bkonrad