[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[teun spaans]

I disagree with this motivation.
If an image is not used in any project, that doesn not mean that the picture
should not be included in commons. Commons is intended to be a collection of
free media in its own right, not just a support fot eh projects.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:55 PM, 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
> used, they could be deleted.
>
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:12:23PM +0100, teun spaans wrote:
> > May I assume that you oppose the cartoons at the bottom of the gallery?
> >
> > It seems to me that the cartoons ridicule Sharon, not the Jewish people.
> > Though I can imagine that you take offence to these cartoons, i doubt
> you
> > can say they are racist, perhaps with the exception of the first, "Stop
> the
> > Zionazi hero"
> >
> > kind regards,
> > teun spaans
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Wikimedia officials, let this be known:
> > >
> > > As long as there are racist pictures and cartoons in articles of
> > > personalities such as Ariel Sharon:
> > >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ariel_Sharon&oldid=9263178
> > > The Hebrew Wikipedia community will boycott Commons and not link to
> pages
> > > in
> > > that project. We will not allow our readers to be exposed to such
> pictures
> > > placed inapropriatly and insultingly.
> > >
> > > This is simply disgraceful. These racist and hate-encouraging pictures
> in
> > > galleries as such is not what the Foundation intended, IMHO.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > a concerned Hebrew Wikipedian
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