The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
I fail to see any constructive purpose to them, and and any school that can reasonably be described as decent or respnsible is (not) going to love them.
Arno M said:
The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
I never even heard of it.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
Jameson,James and Carey are porn stars. The links, I'm neutral on them--I could be persuaded either way. They're almost certainly encyclopedic because anyone interested in either of them is likely to be interested in their websites. The Jenna Jameson entry seems to have, well, quite a lot of external links. Apparently Mary Carey stood in the 2003 gubernatorial elections in California, against Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and finished tenth out of a field of 135 with "over 10,000 votes" according to imdb.
Arno M wrote:
The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
I fail to see any constructive purpose to them, and and any school that can reasonably be described as decent or respnsible is (not) going to love them.
Well, the official websites of people on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_big-bust_models_and_performers] are fairly likely to be, aren't they? Don't say you weren't warned. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Porn_stars] might also have something to do with it.
Not to stir an ugly pot, but here is a more questionable sort of link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Frey
Apparently Scott Peterson's ex-gf posed nude at some point before writing a hit airport book. We have a direct link to said photos placed in the text of our content.
At first I thought about removing it -- not so much because I am against nudity or pornography or anything, but that it seemed to lack class to have Wikipedia be a facilitator of one particular set of pictures about a here-today-gone-tomorrow person in the news.
On the other hand, I didn't really think that was a good reason to delete the link. Who cares about whether it is classy? What sort of standard is that, anyway? etc.
I thought about shifting it to the external links section, but even then I thought that would be a little silly. I thought about adding a warning -- "WARNING, NAKEDNESS!" -- but felt like such a prude. I mean, it is linked (not in-line) -- isn't that what I've been advocating for this sort of thing? If you are so daft as to not realize that an external link entitled "Nude pictures" is going to link to nude pictures, well, that can't be helped.
So I left it as it was. Anyway, I'm only bringing it up because it seems like a better example of what you referenced than pages about porn stars linking to pornography sites -- this is someone who is not a porn star but has a link of this sort.
FF
On 4/18/05, Arno M redgum46@lycos.com wrote:
The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
I fail to see any constructive purpose to them, and and any school that can reasonably be described as decent or respnsible is (not) going to love them.
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The significant thing about her is her involvement with Scott Peterson. That she posed for nude pictures is not encyclopedic. With a porn star, there is at least an excuse for linking to a sample.
Fred
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Not to stir an ugly pot, but here is a more questionable sort of link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Frey
Apparently Scott Peterson's ex-gf posed nude at some point before writing a hit airport book. We have a direct link to said photos placed in the text of our content.
At first I thought about removing it -- not so much because I am against nudity or pornography or anything, but that it seemed to lack class to have Wikipedia be a facilitator of one particular set of pictures about a here-today-gone-tomorrow person in the news.
On the other hand, I didn't really think that was a good reason to delete the link. Who cares about whether it is classy? What sort of standard is that, anyway? etc.
I thought about shifting it to the external links section, but even then I thought that would be a little silly. I thought about adding a warning -- "WARNING, NAKEDNESS!" -- but felt like such a prude. I mean, it is linked (not in-line) -- isn't that what I've been advocating for this sort of thing? If you are so daft as to not realize that an external link entitled "Nude pictures" is going to link to nude pictures, well, that can't be helped.
So I left it as it was. Anyway, I'm only bringing it up because it seems like a better example of what you referenced than pages about porn stars linking to pornography sites -- this is someone who is not a porn star but has a link of this sort.
FF
On 4/18/05, Arno M redgum46@lycos.com wrote:
The bowdlerising project does ssem to have died a quiet death , all right.
Examples of pages with links to porn/adult sites in them (all found in 20 seconds):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Jameson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_James and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carey.
I fail to see any constructive purpose to them, and and any school that can reasonably be described as decent or respnsible is (not) going to love them.
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On 4/25/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The significant thing about her is her involvement with Scott Peterson. That she posed for nude pictures is not encyclopedic. With a porn star, there is at least an excuse for linking to a sample.
The fact that she created a scandal for him is notable. WHether this deserves a link is debatable; we don't have an article for the boyfriend of Paris Hilton's who sold the sex tape, I believe, for example.
Pakaran