This is a difficult issue, and I think extreme positions should be
avoided in the interest of coming up with a tasteful and informative
compromise.
Some general principles that may be helpful:
1. Placing a link which requires the end user to cut and paste helps
to ensure that users never accidentally see something graphic against
their desires. That is to say: don't link, just tell the url.
2. Any such url information should be accompanied with a firm
disclaimer.
3. Whenever there are sites with substantially the same graphic
content, we should choose tastefully. Ogrish, for example, is an
extremely tasteless site which should be avoided whenever the content
can be found somewhere more tasteful.
4. As with all information in all articles, the usefulness of the
information and the historical importance should be a factor as to the
matter of inclusion. The Abu Ghraib photos, for example, are of
extreme historical interest. Other cases will be less clear. But
again, taking an extreme position here is unlikely to get us to a good
consensus.
--Jimbo
slimvirgin(a)gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone help with this? An editor has added to the
article on
former British hostage in Iraq [[Kenneth Bigley]] links to the video
showing his murder. I have deleted the link, but the other editor has
replaced it again, saying a consensus was reached over the [[Nick
Berg]] beheading that Wikipedia would provide a link to these videos.
Does Wikipedia have a policy about publishing links to what is
effectively a snuff movie? Personally, I find this highly
objectionable and unencylopedic.
Would this video count as primary source material and therefore
"original research"?
The other reason I object is that one of the links is to a
particularly nasty website featuring bestiality among other things.
Any advice would be much appreciated, either here or on [[Talk:Kenneth Bigley]].
Slim
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