[Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 29.11.2011 14:40, schrieb Andre Engels:
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
>> <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> The problem starts at the point where the user does not choose the
>>> image(s) for himself and uses a predefined set on what should no be
>>> shown. Someone will have to create this sets and this will be
>>> unavoidably a violation of NPOV in the first place.
>> No, why would it? What does it say if someone created such a set?
>> "These are pictures of such-and-so, and there might be people who do
>> not want to see pictures of such-and-so." I don't see the NPOV here.
>> Nobody is saying "These pictures should not be seen". They are saying,
>> "some people would not like to see these pictures". That's not POV.
>>
> You missed the previous question: "Why would some people not like to see
> these pictures?" The answer to this question is the motivation to create
> such a list and to spread it. But this answer is any case non NPOV.

Sure, it's not NPOV, it's not POV either, it has nothing to do with POV or NPOV.

Let's go to another parallel: There are lists of 'good articles',
'featured articles', 'featured images' andsoforth on various projects.
POV too? And if I make a list of "interesting articles", am I allowed
to put that on Wikipedia? What about a tool that lets you make such a
list and share it with others? Would that also get you as mightily
angry?


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com