On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 November 2010 17:02, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
... and compromise content, as TV Tropes found out:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheSituation?from=Main.T...
That's not a problem with adverts. It's merely an incompatibility between Google's policies and the site. If we fell victim to the same policies, we could just choose another advertiser to work with (although, in reality, Google would bend over backwards to get their adverts on our sites and would relax their policies).
I'm sure they'd be willing to work out a deal where people can opt-in to Wikipedia ads (which wouldn't be subject to the anti-porn rules). I doubt they'd allow non-opt-in ads on [[tit torture]], though.
Alternatively, Wikipedia could put ads only on stable revisions which contain SFG content. Which I suppose could be argued to put some pressure on Wikipedians to make articles SFG. But then, *any* manner of fundraising is going to be affected by these sorts of things. Surely there are people who wouldn't donate to Wikipedia if they knew about the [[tit torture]] article, but would (or do) donate if/because they don't.