[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.
Anthere
anthere9 at yahoo.com
Tue May 11 17:42:33 UTC 2004
Erik Moeller a écrit:
> Anthere-
>
>>We censor pictures of clitoris on the english wikipedia.
>
>
> It was not censored, it was moved away. I had repeatedly argued against
> that, but the outcome of the vote was:
> 9 people in favor of embedding a photo in the article
> 8 people in favor of using a drawing in the article and linking to a photo
> 1 person in favor uf using neither a drawing nor a photo
>
> Of the 9 people in favor of keeping a photo in the article, 2 didn't want
> to use the *particular* photo that we have, which they argued looks like
> retouched pornography (and indeed it does, if you look at earlier versions
> of the image). So that makes "embed drawing, link to photo" the strongest
> position.
>
> No such vote was held on the Abu Ghraib article.
>
> I agree with you that our policies should be consistent. My suggestion
> would be:
> * picture that is universally considered offensive -> link
> * picture that is considered offensive by some, not by others -> embed
>
> One should never err on the side of censorship. I consider the acts that
> were committed in Abu Ghraib offensive, but not the photos of these acts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
Voting on the clitoris page was an error, because it was voting for a
particular case, rather than trying to fix a general situation.
Okay. So, let us set a consistent policy on this.
I totally approved
> * picture that is universally considered offensive -> link
> * picture that is considered offensive by some, not by others -> embed
Fortunately, I fixed the clitoris page, otherwise, we had
-> clitoris -> link -> universally considered offensive
-> torture -> embedded -> considered offensive by some, not by others
Which I do not think is consistent with reality.
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