--- Rebecca misfitgirl@gmail.com wrote:
Really, I think we could do with some intervention from Jimbo on this issue. I'm a rabid leftie, and one reason I chose to study law was because I detest censorship. Yet, at the same time, I utterly refuse to have to put vile censorship software on my own computer to avoid seeing inline what shouldn't be there in the first place. I could really care less about some of the more minor ones, such as [[Clitoris]], but I'm on record as saying that the day [[Goatse]] and similar articles receive according pictures is the day that I leave Wikipedia and demand that every trace of my involvement on this site be removed. I love this site, but I would no longer want to be personally associated with such a place.
To address the point "what shouldn't be there in the first place":
I suggest that the current conflict resolution process is not adequate to meet the challenge posed by such image insertion.
I personally don't care for the photo, but, as has been said on this list, the general wiki process would, in time, rectify the situation.
I think that to meet the need of many people, the media (photo, whatever) itself needs to be tagged as potentially offensive, and replaced with an image indicating that the linked media is deemed offensive, but where such image is clickable to reach the linked image.
Finally, there needs to be a formal process for complaint, which would result in the media being image-linked upon receipt of the complaint, and a formal process similar to arbcom set up to decide on media inclusion, alternative media, and so on.
Currently these efforts take place all over wikipedia and in lists and IRC and plenty of people take cheap shots at each other.
This would satisfy the casual browser, like me, as well as those who wish greater depth of knowledge, like me.
Again, Ambi, I apologize for the bar reference.
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