In our sphere, we librarians also decided this issue some time ago: Labeling is censorship. Those who wish to censor have their own purposes, and have the ability to devise their own methods. We have metadata on our objects, both titles and categories. We have the responsibility to provide information about our images as well as the images, for educational value--and usefulness generally-- depends on context .
Some people in the world think, rightly or not, that there is a need to censor certain kinds of material for at least certain audiences. What we already have should provide sufficient information for any ordinary need for censorship, formal or informal. More sophisticated systems can use image analysis.
I myself think there is in fact no genuine need for censorship of any sort. But we would be wrong to adopt technical measures either to prevent the censoring of our material, or to promote it. WP has, as it ought to have, a free license that deliberately permits people to fork or modify or select from it. Our purpose is to provide free material in every sense of the word, and this freedom includes the ability to make good or bad use of it and we do not judge that. We differ in this respect from many other good sites, many of which are free except that they prohibit commercial use; we have always maintained our lack of distinction between subsequent uses as a basic principle, and should continue to maintain it.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
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You asked for comments... Here is one we prepared earlier...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_censorship#ICRA
In other words, we have been here, we have done this, and we have the T-shirt.
This *HAS* been suggested before, and soundly defeated. Nothing has changed in this respect. I would heartfeltly ask that folks just quit trying to stuff this down the throat of a community that simply does not content labeling.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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