On Feb 5, 2008 2:42 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that you're effectively saying that many Moslems shouldn't be able to see any of the wikipedia's images, and trying to enshrine this as policy.
If that's not what you're saying, then I'd like to know what in practice the difference is, given that there's no domain/browser way to avoid just these images.
What I'm saying is that if they don't want to see those images then they have a few options:
1. Turn off images in their browser.
2. Don't go to those pages.
I would not consider us catering to their demands that we remove the images an option. Hiding the images until they are clicked is an unacceptable compromise and presents many technical issues. (For example, they would either all be shown or all be hidden when printing a page. What do we do if JavaScript is disabled, etc.)
The goal is to write an encyclopedia. To provide a free resource to the world. Babysitting and shielding our users from content they may not like is not our job.
If someone complains about these kind of images, just link them to [[Wikipedia:Content disclaimer]]. If they still complain the only sane response is "so cry me a river."