Couldn't this whole problem be addressed simply by creating a separate article, with a title such as [[Abu Ghraib/Photos of abuse]]? The [[Abu Ghraib]] article itself could include one or two of the photos, plus a link to the separate article where the other photos appear. Presumably anyone who visits an article titled [[Abu Ghraib/Photos of abuse]] would know to expect that they will be viewing disturbing images.
--Sheldon Rampton
--- Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton@verizon.net wrote:
Couldn't this whole problem be addressed simply by creating a separate article...
I would prefer putting them at the bottom of the article. After the heading: Warning: some people might find the photos below offensive. Or not.
I personally think that since we're not a newspaper, we should not apply to ourselves rules which newpapers apply to themselves.
I personally think that if I wrote an article on the treblinka extermination camp (which I did), that photos of the camp and (however disturbing) the condition of the prisoners should not be seen as "cruel" and "gross". The text itself does that (read about the beating to death with shovels and the chopping off of women's breasts with cavalry sabers if you want gross and disturbing.)
A clitoris, for God's sake, might be titillating, or not, but is certainly not cruel, gross, or disturbing. Half the population of the planet has one. It would be like disallowing pictures of teeth, or ears, or belly buttons or toes.
Remember please that this encyclopedia must stand the test of time, and not be seen by future generation as the epitome of everything that was wrong with society at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Please go read up on Voltaire, Rousseau, and Baudelaire, and perhaps the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution and its Preamble.
These documents stood the test and hatred of time especially because they address core issues without self-censorship, but rather with exhuberance.
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