2009/4/30 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Should
commons allow images which are biased?
Can an image be biased out of context?
Can text?
I suppose not - the same principles apply to Wikisource as apply to Commons.
It is the
usage of the images
that may or may not be biased, the images themselves are inherently
neutral.
It's not clear to me what that is supposed to mean, but from my
understanding of what you're saying I think I have to disagree. I would say
that
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Racistcampaignposter1.jpg,
the image in itself, is biased, but that the context at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg renders it
neutral.
There isn't really any context there, though. Just a few details about
the source and the licensing.
But this is probably shorthand for a more precise
meaning. Would commons
accept a racist caricature of Obama with no context, which someone uploaded
as File:Picture834.jpg? Maybe so. Or maybe that would fall under some
other rule. I really don't know.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg>
I would expect so. I'm not that familiar with commons policy, so there
might be a rule I don't know of that would ban it, but I'd be
surprised. (Well, there might be a rule about using descriptive
filenames...)