[Foundation-l] Another board member statement

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kat Walsh <kat at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> "Commons should not be a host for media that has very
>> little informational or educational value
>
> This is too broad. Confine the scope toward dealing with what does not
> belong, rather than trying to suggest that everything be purposed as
> stated above. "Prurient" and "exhibitionist" are terms which seem to
> adequately define what doesn't belong.

I disagree. Pictures should be judged on their value for Commons, not
on something else. And that value is decided by what the picture _is_
(as Kat says, informational and/or educational) not by what it _is
not_. If the best (from an informational perspective) picture we have
of a subject is prurient or exhibitionist, then I want to keep it. If
on the other hand a picture has been done very tasty, but nobody can
find a reason to call it informational, then I won't shed a tear about
it being deleted.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com