[Foundation-l] Censorship: Speedy deletion of porn articles

[The Cunctator]

On 3/8/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).


<snip>

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.



Contrary to the snide response of Gerard, this is a real issue. Articles
which pass muster in one language should not be blocked in another one.