--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
Here's a set of flags that I think would work
well enough for the
felching article:
sexuality mature content slang
I don't see how those are very controversial.
"mature content" will definitely cause problems. You imply in the rest of what you write (not only
in this post)
�what some would consider to be appropriate only
for the mature�,
but not only does "mature content" not say this
literally,
but also (as somebody else pointed out) that's
extremely broad,
and includes [[Christianity]]. So it won't be of
much use.
Well, I don't agree. The standards for what we
mean by mature content
can be spelled out in sufficient detail and in an
NPOV way so that
controversy is minimized.
But I'm not invested in that particular phrase.
Perhaps we could use
'explicit sexual content' to distinguish it from
'sexuality'.
If I were writing the Wikipedia code, I wouldn't
spend my time
on writing support for these flags; that's better
done (if at all)
by another project that operates on top of
Wikipedia
But this is important for Wikipedia the website,
not just for
others.
Some people in this debate have taken a very POV
position, i.e. that
wikipedia should shove this stuff down people's
throats, and if
they're too prudish to deal with it, too bad ha ha.
I don't agree.
To be effective any kind of flagging system must avoid subjective determinations. Words like "explicit" and "mature" can lead to some serious disagreements that can't easily be resolved. The following spectrum can be more objectively determined for photographs. 1. Contains images of sex acts 2. Contains close-up images of genitals 3. Contains whole-body nudity 4. Contains partial nudity 5. Shows people in underclothes 6. Shows suggestive photos of fully clad people
There is a gradation here, and that gives a greater opportunity to choose how much is acceptable. Putting these in some coding system would allow these to be presented with only a few alpha-numeric characters.
Ec
It that for the piano ankles ? :-)
4. should be more precise, I think in most cultures, seeing a naked hand is fine, seing a naked face not always so. Or naked hair Or legs Or tummy (look, it IS very hot these days here :-))
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