On 2/18/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/02/2008, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
I really think what should be done is to approach the situation from the viewpoint of what is the *best* way to encyclopaedically illustrate articles about any legendary figure.
Well, yeah. That's pretty much the position the WMF has been giving to the press:
"Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group."
Filtering Wikipedia content is something redistributors can do.
The petitioners want these images not to *exist*.
- d.
That line is actually orthogonal to what I was saying. My idea is that protests should not *prevent* us from seeing if we can improve the relevance of what images we choose to use in the article. I repeat that I think from purely encyclopaedic principles, some of the images in the muhammed article aren't useful.
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]