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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