On 22/02/2008, Ragib Hasan ragibhasan@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that the images in question are considered/claimed to be important *only because* there are protests against them. This is a circular logic ... the more people protest, the more the "keeper"s of the image insist they must be retained in the article.
I don't think many people are claiming that these images should be included because they are important. It is not our job to decide which media and articles are more important than any other and to treat them differently. The objection is to compromising our policy for any article or item of media.
Equally, to compromise our policy because there is a protest (and to assume that issues which people are protesting for have legitimacy, by default) is nonsensical and circular. If we readily did that, more and more would try to exert influence on Wikipedia content through protest.