[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Ian A Holton]

I'm really unsure how I stand on this issue. Still, spreading them out
into different categories / galleries would be a good solution and not
very controversial in my opinion.

Finally, instead of having an easily overlookable text stating that we,
as in the project, are neutral and not political, how about a nice big
template warning that the following images contain politically (insert
$word, e.g. religion ...) controversial and are included for $reason.

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:17 +0000, Oldak Quill wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Hebrew Wikipedia community. The discussion is still active, but several
> >  users think this is the correct way to deal with these pictures being
> >  displayed in the wrong place. We don't want to expose our readers to such
> >  images, unless they are relevant, i.e. articles about racism etc.
> 
> Since none of these pictures are racist (see Mark's post), the only
> motivation to boycott Commons for including these images in galleries
> is political. When did it become he.wikipedia's job to protect the
> interests of Israel or Ariel Sharon?
> 
> >  Please understand why the link "more images and media about Ariel Sharon:
> >  <link to Ariel Sharon Commons>" and others are removed: they include racist
> >  pictures that should not be there. These pictures should be limited to
> >  categories and galleries such as "Racism" and "Political statements", not in
> >  personality galleries.
> 
> Not per Commons policy. We have no policy suggesting galleries should
> reflect an individual or an organisation favourably. The policy at the
> moment is to include any relevant media in galleries and to give a
> sample of the media relating to something.
> 
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