On 23 July 2010 00:06, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Actually I think there is one issue that has still not been well discussed, and which I think it should be possible to build consensus around (but maybe I'm naive): The issue of context for controversial images. For example, although it may be perfectly fine to include an image of nude bondage in the "BDSM" article, you probably wouldn't want it included in the "Rope" article, and almost certainly not in the "Play (activity)" article. Similarly, you probably wouldn't want to feature an image of Osama Bin Laden on the en.wiki Main Page on 9/11. Right now, we rely solely on the discretion of our editors to make sure images are used in appropriate contexts.
And so far, it's worked. Your words appear to presume people have somehow failed to actually think about this stuff over the past ten years.
It would be useful if we actually had a policy we could point to if an editor happened to have a catastrophic loss of discretion. Something simple like: "Potentially objectionable images should only be used in contexts for which they are directly relevant and appropriate. In addition, the use of potentially objectionable images in contexts such as Picture of the Day, Random Picture of the Day, Today's featured picture, etc. should be avoided as these uses generally do not provide adequate context for such images."
Rules saying "don't be stupid" don't work and encourage less cluefulness, not more cluefulness.
- d.