--- On Wed, 18/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons
To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects"
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Date: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011, 15:23
No, the image had political content, read policy for
Commons, as an
allegory of Liberty. Bare breasts, although usually
somewhat smaller
breasts, are standard in images of Liberty, at least
French, or European
ones, see File:1672 Gérard de Lairesse - Allegory of the
Freedom of
Trade.jpg
I am sure the editor who said "I like her big tits" had that political
message in mind.
You keep saying, "just because it has tits in
it". That is
specious. See
the author's note on the description of the image, "Author:
Niabot,
because commons should stay free“
I have honestly not seen Niabot claim that he was trying to riff on
traditional bare-breasted representations of Liberty. The only person I
have seen make that claim is you. Even if true, the question is whether
the artistic, historic and educational merit of this particular riff
on the Liberty figure warrant featuring this image. In my opinion, they
do not, and I honestly suspect any of these concerns were way over the
heads of those who voted for it.
Niabot has a recent habit of signing his images with a political tag line.
The same "because commons should stay free" tag line is present in this
close-up of the cat in the image:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version_(ki…
Here (*deservedly* a featured picture by him), he says: “Niabot, because
wikimedia commons lost his roots”.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anime_Girl.png
Personally I disagree with the statement, as the roots of Commons are not
manga, or sites like DeviantArt, but in this case the image is deservedly
featured.
The same "commons has lost its roots" tag line is also on these images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dojikko.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png
I don't think the author's tag line affects image quality one way or the
other.
Andreas