[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Robert Rohde]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:36:48PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 05/03/2008, Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > > What nobody has asked is whether these offensive cartoons on Commons
> are
> > >  used anywhere on any project and if so where. If any of them are not
> >
> >
> > Commons' ambit is now wider than merely being a service project
> > (though occasionally some people need reminding it is also a service
> > project).
>
> The main ambit is to service other projects, so if these images are used
> on other projects, then they should stay. However, if they are not
> used, I see no reason to keep them as they offensive. Of course, we
> would not go through Commons deleting all unused images.
>
> Brian.
>

You may want to review Yoni's previous deletion request:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Inappropriate_cartoons

Commons overwhelmingly supported keeping these and similar items even though
they are intended to be offensive.

-Robert A. Rohde