On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:27:48PM -0000, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Delirium said:
*Somewhere* we have to draw a line, I think, but we just all disagree on where. For example, many would argue that adding a rotten.com image of a car crash to [[car accident]] is inappropriate, despite it being clearly on topic and arguably informative (an image gives a much different understanding of what flying through a windshield really is like as opposed to a text description).
That sounds like a pretty good idea, though rotten.com may object. There are probably plenty of public domain US car crash pictures.
I haven't seen rotten.com's collection of car-crash pictures, but I've read many of their "Rotten Library" articles, most of which seem to be quite good research on unusual and icky subjects (from trepanation to Al Qaida, from SpongeBob SquarePants to the Gunpowder Plot). They do tend to have a lot of images, though I suspect many of them are a little bit copyright-infringe-ish around the edges.
Having pictures of an actual car crash would have other problems, though -- for one, permission from the persons involved in the crash. We don't want to infringe upon the privacy of them or their heirs.