[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Florence Devouard]

Yoni Weiden wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia Foundation people,
> 
> The page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon in commons includes
> racist cartoons against a representative of the Jewish nation, and thus,
> against the Jewish people themselves. I seems like Commons does not have a
> NPOV policy and thus the pictures will be there until they manage to create
> one. I do not agree that such pictures be presented in Ariel Sharon's page
> and I think you should interfere (as commons community clearly don't have
> the policies to deal with this case) and correct this serious offence before
> it is released to the press in Israel.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yoni Weiden
> aka Yonidebest at hewiki
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Euh

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*

Example
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:UnitedweRAPE.gif
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Arielsharonsecretlove.gif
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:SharonAnti-Christ.gif

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