On Feb 19, 2008 11:54 AM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Nathan wrote:
Do we modify content on Wikipedia in response to the offense taken by a subset of our audience?
If someone put a picture of someone shoving a gerbil up their behind on the page for "gerbil", we'd remove it. So yes, we do modify content in response to (or anticipation of) offense from the audience.
Actually we usually do it because of the encyclopaedia; we tend to remove links to "BASDSITES" because they don't have a real relevance to whatever article they're insinuated into, and we remove pictures of people shoving gerbils up their ass because generally these aren't relevant to an article about gerbils that has no actual text concerning the act of shoving a gerbil up one's rectum.
Johnleemk