On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:34 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/23 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
It might be worth considering something like this - we don't want lurid or shocking images plastered across the site unless they have editorial merit, but conversely removing them *merely* for their content can prove counterproductive. Some kind of policy that says "think hard about it and have a good reason; make sure it needs to be there" could turn out to have much of the desired effect.
We have that already as an implicit guideline. For God sake don't make it a "policy", I shudder to contemplate the robotic bureaucracy around it.
You're a bit late— It's been a policy in some form or another for a fairly long time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Image_use_policy&old...
See #12; fairly similar to Andrew Gray's formulation. The current version of the page retains the point in an abbreviated form (I prefer the older form— though I think I might have written it, not worth the trouble checking, that it still persists in some form is the important point…)