[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Rob Smith]

What was the disposition in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons
controversy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy#Images>?
There is a link to Commons from the Wikipedia article but none of the
cartoon images and no discussion.


On 12/5/07, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2007 6:56 PM, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> > Yoni Weiden wrote:
> >
> > >Regarding double standard - I have no idea whats going on in other
> pages. I
> > >can imagine that this artist and others have infected other pages too,
> > >incl.
> > >Bush's page, and even Hitler's page. These pages should be *clean* from
> > >racist images that promote nothing Wikimedia stands for.
> >
> > Like Wikipedia, Commons is not censored. I have an account there -
> albeit
> > only with a handful of uploads, but I *will* vote oppose on any deletion
> or
> > policy that seeks to impose political correctness on a media repository.
> I
> > *hate* censorship and do *not* believe it should be selectively applied
> to
> > people I disagree with or hold opposing beliefs to.
> >
> >
> > Brian McNeil
> >
> >
> I fully agree. We should never delete images on moral grounds or
> political correctness. Unfortunately we have done so in the past.
>
> Bryan
>
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