Hoi, When you make illustration not visible you effectively remove them. It is a cop out to continue and say that it is *others *that can decide that they do not want to be informed, that they are willing that other people are at risk because essential images are not readily available. It is a cop out because this risk is ignored. Ignored because it is convenient
As to BLP, the images that I am talking about do not identify people. They show what is essentially a detail and a penis or a vagina may be part of this.
When the issue is about people using images in places where they are not appropriate, then deal with that issue. Do not confuse this with the legitimate use of essential but problematic images. Thanks, GerardM
2009/4/21 Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru
Someone I know did not recognise a venereal disease and as a consequence she became barren. It is because of this that I asked a Dutch organisation
for
illustrations of how venereal diseases visually manifest themselves. The images I got show sexual organs, show ulcers and other things that are quite horrid. The only way I know that gives people a fighting chance is by educating them, by providing information. That is in our mission. Our mission does not say we will give you information, "sanitised" information, information that will not help you because it is incomplete.
When you argue that there is no need for "arty" nude pictures, I agree. That is a completely different subject then hiding essential information that we need in our articles. Our articles require the highest quality illustrations because in this way we are true to our mission to inform. Thanks, GerardM
I believe in this part of the discussion nobody argues that the images like you mention should be removed, it is just a question whether they should be tagged (named, categorized) appropriately so that communities may decide to include them as hidden for instance.
This is under understanding the whole issue is not covered by BLP policy (I assume if a vagina is shown but the face is not this is not a BLP issue).
Cheers Yaroslav
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