On 8/17/05, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
That's a pretty ugly discussion, but reading over their (somewhat misguided) page does bring up one possible addition to the discussion on "inappropriate" images which I didn't see raised before.
Namely, if the English Wiki servers are hosted in a U.S. state, then the site does, if I am not mistaken, fall under various laws about the distribution of "obscene" images to minors. "Obscene" is of course a subject term, in the legal realm as well as here, but there is some precedent which could allow one to make such decisions.
Well I'm making a big assumption here. But I'm going to assume that Florida is a reasonable state with reasonable laws on obscenity. If that is the case then we simple shouldn't have any images that are obscene.
Wikipedia is an encylopedia not a pornshop.
For example. I do not believe that the picture of an erect penis on the penis article is obscene. It it encylopedic and entirely appropriate for minors, and I cannot believe that the state of Florida would think otherwise. _If_ we have any pornographic pictures, and we do have a lot of pics of pornstars, I haven't checked them all but it's certainly possible that someone might upload a pornographic image of one of them we should simplr delete them as innapropriate for an encylopedia.
Theresa