Jimmy Wales wrote:
I agree about not needing new policies, although I do think that some of the default assumptions may need to be moved, with respect to images which have been uploaded. I think a move of default assumptions would go a long way toward nuking a ton of fair use images that we would prefer not to have in en.wikipedia.
Yes, writing new policies only confuses people, when what is needed is the courage to enforce the ones that already exist.
But the one thing that I hope can healthily come out of this discussion is a general feeling of empowerment by admins to actually *enforce* policy in the face of trolling by pedohiles and the like, or the sorts of people who think that merely by camping out and pushing POV on an article, they should have more of a say of what goes into it than admins.
We had the same lolicon cartoon appear to illustrate that word in Wiktionary, and probably the same proportion of people who objected to it, and always who want to keep it as a part of some free speech crusade. I feel on safe ground enforcing the elimination of that picture from the project, but oftentimes in other circumstances enforcement is a tough call because the amount of flak can become overwhelming. A senior administrator or bureaucrat has an extra stock of goodwill to draw upon, but that does not make it easier when there's a need to come down heavy on long-standing contributors.
BTW, congrats for having your "Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians" make it to Quote of the Day on Google.
Ec