[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

[David Moran]

This one's been discussed ad nauseam already, and I think the community's
discussions pretty unambiguously tend towards keep.

FMF



On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

> My opinion on this is clear: Commons should welcome both photographs
> and pictures. Whether a project shows a picture or a photograph should
> be the project's decision, not that of Commons. Some may prefer one,
> others the other. Sexuality is in scope on Wikimedia projects, so its
> images are in scope at Commons.
>
> Andre
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:03 AM, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > g'day all,
> >
> > There's an interesting deletion discussion taking place here;
> >
> >
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Sexuality_pearl_necklace_small.png
> >
> > concerning an image of a woman with sperm on her neck. To my mind it's
> very
> > doubtful that this is in fact a freely licensed image, but regardless of
> my
> > cynicism, the IP who nominated the image for deletion (the 5th time it's
> > been nominated, and the 4th time was by me, in December) raised the
> > possibility that we (both commons, wikipedia, and perhaps by extension
> all
> > wmf projects) might be better to opt for drawings rather than photographs
> of
> > sexual activity?
> >
> > I'm sure many are familiar with my view that the foundation is an acutely
> > irresponsible host in this area (I'm not a fan, for example, of the
> pictures
> > taken of topless women on beaches without their permission which commons
> > currently hosts) - but wonder what the feeling is out there in regard to
> > freely licensed images of people having sex - we've currently got quite a
> > few on commons, and it's likely to be a growth area. There's a dirty pun
> in
> > there somewhere, but I can't be bothered to make it......
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Peter
> > PM.
> >
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