[Foundation-l] PG rating

Yann Forget yannfo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 17:57:05 UTC 2011


2011/9/13 M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
> Are you kidding? Pictures of mummies, a cup with a depiction of two guys
> doing it that can only be noticed if you look really closely, and what is
> supposed to be a depiction of intercourse but actually looks more like a
> piece of stale bread? Wow.

+1
I really hope that Wikimedia will never censor this kind of stuff...

Yann

> 2011/9/13 Fae <fae at wikimedia.org.uk>
>
>> > Are there are pages on English Wikipedia that should be classified as PG?
>>
>> Good candidates that I have had a hand in improving are:
>> # [[Gebelein predynastic mummies]] - surely gruesome close-ups of
>> naked dead bodies are PG?
>> # [[Warren Cup]] - explicit depiction of under-age homosexual anal sex
>> in the lead.
>> # [[Ain Sakhri lovers]] - depiction of penetrative heterosexual
>> intercourse in the lead.
>>
>> The discussion of how to make Wikipedia "child-friendly" has a long
>> history with no firm conclusion. Some would like to effectively censor
>> massive areas of history and culture, whilst others will take any
>> potential restriction as a direct challenge to the open movement.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fae



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