Hoi,
It is fine to have an article on porn. It is not reasonable to insist on
documenting individual porn stars. If your whole argument can be reduced to
your indignation that an article translated by you was deleted without much
discussion, then I do think this is not the place to discuss it either,
discuss it on the he.wikipedia.
If Danny wants to spend time on it in his free time, he can do so. I fail to
see why this should merit the attention of the Wikimedia Foundation. As I
indicated there are many more relevant things that need to be addressed.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3/9/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/9/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is no reason at all why all subjects that are permitted on the
English
Wikipedia should be permitted on another project. The notions of the
English
Wikipedia are not universal. Individual Pokemon articles et al are
denied
on
the German Wikipedia and when individual people and or movies notable in
the
porn industry are not permitted on a particular project, I have no
problem
with it at all.
I never said that every other Wikipedia needs to go by the same standards
as
the English Wikipedia just that you can't censor a certain topic just
because you don't like it, especially when there's nowhere near community
consensus on the issue.
There are much more important issues to do with censorship on Wikipedia
projects. On some projects articles on the
holocaust are severely
censored
because "it is not an accepted fact that it
happened the way you have it
portrayed". This means that articles, even featured articles of the
English
Wikipedia associated with the second world war, cannot be literally
translated into these particular language versions of Wikipedia.
Then that's an even bigger problem that should be dealt with as well.
In many cultures the porn industry is not noted nor is porn permitted.
Insistence on having it included in Wikipedia is
against the laws and
morals
of such countries. I stand by my position that a comparison with the
Pokemon
characters is valid; a Wikipedia article does not have to allow the
inclusion of all of them.
Luckily for us, we have someone who is well aware of Israeli and Hebrew
culture and who knows that in this aspect (to be specific, me). Israeli
society is very similar to American or European society in that there are
the conservatives, but they are not the majority (and of course there are
no
"porn laws"). Your argument might be valid for the Arabic Wikipedia (since
in that case, a ban may reflect Arabic society and morals), however a
country that has the playboy channel, et cetera, is obviously not the
country that you imagine. You seem to have a strong misconception of the
Hebrew culture.
The porn industry *is* notable in Israeli\Hebrew culture. Again, even the
ones arguing against the inclusion of pornographic articles in the Hebrew
Wikipedia ARE NOT saying that it isn't notable. I didn't say the Hebrew
Wikipedia needs to allow writing about Angel Cutexxx (fictional name) or
any
other esoteric actor/actress just that articles on subjects that are
clearly
notable cannot be speedy deleted. I'd have much less of a problem if
someone
nominated the article for deletion as non-notable but this is not what is
happening, an article about a subject that has something to do with porn
is
deleted... for no reason other than the fact that it has something to do
with porn (and nobody is claiming otherwise, or using non-notability as an
excuse).
Fine, you don't trust my judgment as obviously I have a POV here but
someone
like Danny (and I know who Danny is and how busy he is) is someone who can
judge the situation in a better way since he is familiar with the culture,
speaks the language and is a trusted person.
PS I am not outraged, I think your premise is wrong.
If you look over your initial response, you may see why I perceived it
that
way.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3/8/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I strongly resent your reply. It seems like you have some similar
issues
with
Pokemon articles and that's the reason you lashed out the way you
did.
The reason I raised this issue on this mailing list is not because of
some
> misplaced sense of outrage. The incident I was talking about took
place
> two
> months ago and the only reason I mentioned it was to fully disclose
any
> relevant information so other people
don't come on here later on and
say
> that the only reason I'm bringing this
issue to the attention of
others
is
> due to a vendetta against the Hebrew Wikipedia or something of the
sort.
This
isn't about me trying to provoke anything. It's about a certain
group
> of admins ignoring the fact that speedy deletion of porn articles was
> never
> passed as a policy on hewp (and there is more than one sysop who can
> attest
> to this). As I said previously, I don't have any particular interest
in
> porn
> and the fact that I've never edited an article that has anything to do
> with
> this topic on the english wikipedia supports that. Ron Jeremy and
Jenna
Jameson
are both notable enough to have their own article on any
wikipedia,
whether it be English, Hebrew or Malaysian. Attempts have been made to
resolve this issue "in-house" have failed, otherwise I wouldn't have
posted
it to this mailing list. I can't find the specific meta page at the
moment
but it isn't English Wikipedia only policy
that wikipedia isn't
censored.
If
the german wikipedia decided to delete all articles regarding Nazi
Germany,
etc. would you have reacted the same way? Or maybe if the Chinese
Wikipedia
decided to ban all articles on the issue of democracy? I hope you
rethink
> your response and maybe try not to treat me as a troll when I really
am
> not
> one.
>
> -Yonatan
>
> On 3/8/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hoi,
> > When you think that people are interested in what can be perceived
as
a
> provocation, you are wrong. What makes you
think that details about
porn
> > is
> > of sufficient relevance to warrant an article? You have to
appreciate
that
> some Wikipedias are quite happy to even disallow articles about
Pokomon
> > characters. Now Pokomon creatures are much more educational. They
are
> the
> > staple diet of our youth.
> >
> > Danny is a WMF employee, I believe he has more important things to
do
> than
> > to indulge your misplaced sense of outrage.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > On 3/8/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It has recently (about two months ago) come to my attention that
> > articles
> > > on
> > > the Hebrew Wikipedia are speedy deleted. I translated the Jenna
> Jameson
> > > article from the English Wikipedia and it was very quickly speedy
> > deleted
> > > and I was indefinitely blocked due to being a sockpuppet of some
guy
> (of
> > > course no checkuser request was done). By the way, I don't
> particularly
> > > like
> > > porn articles or anything of the sort; in fact, I don't believe
I've
> > ever
> > > edited a porn article on the enwp which I'm very active on. After
a
few
> > days
> > (during which I complained on Danny's enwp talk page and thus got
the
> > > attention of a Hebrew Wikipedia admin and later spoke on the phone
> with
> > > another admin from hewp) I was unblocked. I'm guessing there have
> > probably
> > > been other people who just gave up after they were banned and
didn't
> >
return.
> >
> > The situation is basically that if a user who isn't well-known on
the
> > hewp
> > > (someone outside of a group of about 100 users) creates such an
> article
> > he
> > > will probably be perm-banned and if anyone else does so, the
article
>
will
> > probably just be speedy deleted. No rule has been passed on the
Hebrew
> > > Wikipedia regarding this and even if it had been passed, it would
be
> in
> > > violation of WMF (?) guidelines as Wikipedia is not censored. Some
> claim
> > > that a rule has been passed but many admins disagree with this.
The
>
"vote"
> > was passed about two years ago and had 10-20 participants. In
addition
> to
> > this, the vote came at a time when the Hebrew Wikipedia was
repeatedly
> > vandalized by a certain user and many
of the voters supposedly for
the
> > banning of porn articles referred only
to this specific case (this
is
> > supported by their comments on the
page).
> >
> > By the way, just so nobody corrects me, on the Hebrew Wikipedia
*there
> are
> > votes* since consensus is hardly ever reached and the total needed
to
> pass
> > a
> > vote is a ridiculous 55%. Anyway, despite all the above, a few
admins
> have
> > said that they will speedy delete any porn articles created on the
> Hebrew
> > Wikipedia. Currently there are a few porn articles which are about
the
> > movie
> > Deep Throat and two other articles that I don't recall at the
moment.
> > This
> > > is a foundation issue because the situation right now is
effectively
> > > censorship of articles that some
people feel do not have a place
on
> the
> > > wikipedia. I know I will probably have those who disagree with me
be
> notified of this discussion at some point at
which point the
slandering
> > will
> > begin and I will be called a "snitch" and possibly other more
colorful
> > > terms
> > > so I ask ahead of time for this discussion to remain civil.
Although
I
> > > hate
> > > to burden Danny, who probably has a lot of more important things
to
do,
> he
> > is the only one who speaks both Hebrew and English and could take
care
> > of
> > > this issue since he is obviously a person trusted by most. Anyway
I
think
> I've written more than enough on an issue that should be pretty
> straightforward, that is, that wikipedia is not censored.
>
> Thanks,
> Yonatan
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