[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

[Fred Bauder]

Yes, Category:Women facing left

A caricature of a Catholic saint using a dildo but used on Wikipedias in
3 languages to illustrate the article "dildo". I'm not a student of
Teresa of Ávila but it seems rather unlikely she did a lot of wanton
stuff with dildos. Not that there would be anything wrong if she had, but
we don't illustrate the articles of any number of women who might have
used a dildo at some point in their lives in this way.

In a word, the image is made up and quite offensive.

Fred Bauder

> The thing that has changed is the fact that this was decided by the
> community, by admins who have earned their rights in a community vote,
> and according to policies. Take e.g.
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A9licien_Rops_-_Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se.png>.
> That image is a 19th century artwork, a drawing,  from an important
> artist. It was uploaded to Commons in 2006 and never questioned. But
> Jimbo didn't file a deletion request, he didn't even put a speedy
> delete. He just deleted it with a generic message given as reason. Two
> times the deletion was reverted by longstanding Commons admins who
> wanted to uphold Commons policy about deletions and two times Jimbo
> deleted it again, with the same generic reason. At the moment the file
> is again undeleted by a third Commons admin. (Jimbo is not online at the
> moment to overturn that decision.)
>
> I think this is a really obvious example how Jimbo breaks policies and
> why large parts of the Commons community are upset.
>
> Marcus Buck
> User:Slomox
>
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