[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 20:17:01 UTC 2008


This reeks of the petition to remove the pictures of Muhammad from Commons,
except now with another ethnic group/religion offended.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/03/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:51 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  >  Currently 4 commons images on he.pedia main page so I think we can
> >  >  assume no community agreement at this point
>
> > Well, numbers never lie. It still may be worth keeping an eye on,
> >  because if the boycott just started today, those images could all
> >  disappear within the next few days. Barring that, you're right that
> >  it's probably not a community thing.
>
>
> Last time Yoni brought this same issue up on this list there was a
> noticeable lack of supporters. I expect we'll find out soon if there
> are any this time, and if they have a different writing style.
>
>
> - d.
>
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