On 06/02/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
I don't really respect your counterargument either. You're proposing that we cave to a minority that has a bone to pick with a project to build a free encyclopedia. We are in the (non-profit) business of providing information to people, including culturally relevant images that some people may find offensive. There are many ways they can protect themselves -- turn off images for example. This seems reasonable to me and doesn't require that we bend our core policies to appease anyone.
Worse than that - how many of them even came to Wikipedia in the first place? They don't want these images to *exist*. I really don't see how a compromise is possible.
- d.