On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Fae fae@wikimedia.org.uk
We could also just delete them, unless someone actually uses them in a sensible way in an article. :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
Not on Commons; being "objectionable" to some viewers and not being currently in use does not make a potentially educational image out of scope. I have seen many poorly worded deletion requests on Commons on the basis of a potentially useable image being "orphaned" rather than it being unrealistic to expect it to ever be used for an educational purpose.
Fae
Agree with Fae; Commons is a general image repository in its own right, serving a bigger audience than just the other Wikimedia projects.
So the fact is that Commons will contain controversial images – and that we have to curate them responsibly.
Someone on Meta has pointed out that Commons seems to list sexual image results for search terms like cucumber, electric toothbrushes or pearl necklace way higher than a corresponding Google search. See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html
Concur strenously. Jimbo tried deleting things he thought would have no useful purpose but merely titillation from commons and crashed and burned. Not the way to go folks! The finnish wikipedia uses a victorian or pre-victorian era mildly pedophilic suggestive copperplate drawing as an illustration of the "Pedophilia" article. By modern day standards the image is more comical than titillating *by our Finnish standards* --- but would be highly suspect in the US, atleast if the deletion debate for that image at commons is to be given credence to...