[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

[Thomas Dalton]

On 7 May 2010 20:56, Jan-Bart de Vreede <janbart at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> HI,
>
> Before calling it a night I would like to point out the final paragraph of the statement.
>
> "In saying this, we don't intend to create new policy, but rather to reaffirm and support policy that already exists. We encourage Wikimedia editors to scrutinize potentially offensive materials with the goal of assessing their educational or informational value, and to remove them from the projects if there is no such value."

Well, there is currently no policy to allow the unilateral deletion of
images like this on Commons, which is why I interpreted the statement
as not supporting Jimmy's actions. I know it is human nature to be
intentionally vague about controversial matters in order to leave
yourself room to manoeuvre in the future, but it is really unhelpful.
Can the board please explicitly say whether Jimmy's actions are done
with board authorisation or not? If not, I think our policies are very
clear: Jimmy should be blocked from Commons until he agrees to comply
with policy and all the images should be undeleted pending consensus.
That is what would happen to anyone else.