[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Dec 5, 2007 1:05 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ant
>
>
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Images on Commons should not be educational, but usable in some
Wikimedia project. As there appear to be multiple articles in multiple
languages on Latuff, I fail to see why the images are inappropriate
for Commons (except that I find the copyright status dubious). Which
does not mean that they belong in the Sharon gallery, btw.

Bryan