I guess it's "educational" in the sense that from these you can learn quite a lot about the moronic agitprop tendencies of the bleeding-heart liberal "We're all Hizbollah now" brigade. I personally learned quite a lot about the artist :)
More seriously, however, Commons need to pull their collective socks up. This is not clever stuff, and I note that the user who added and then edit-warred over these has not been banned yet. If this were enwiki I'd have kicked this guy out ASAP. POV-warriors can't be allowed to run around on the loose on any WMF project.
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To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org From: Anthere9@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:32:07 +0100 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Racism in Commons
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 12/5/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Some (many) of the images uploaded by Jaakobou are quite shocking. I am sorry, but I fail to see how many of these images are in any sense *educational*
As far as I can tell, the illustrations were not created specifically for Commons. Rather, an illustrator named Carlos Latuff made them available as public domain artwork. As such, they could usefully serve as examples of particular types of political cartoonism, where we normally would resort to fair use. See:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Latuff
for examples of Latuff's work. I've proposed an NPOV disclaimer (before Anthere removed the cartoons).
Yeah. In the spirit of NPOV, I think that when HALF of the images of a (famous) politician on commons are conveying the idea that he is a nazi, then the page is not okay as is.
Now, beyond this, I think commons community should possibly reflect on what is *educational* and what is not.
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