In some countries it's also illegal to show a penis or someone masturbating and we won't have those images deleted from their respective articles any time soon. I don't think you can call it surprising the reader when they know what article they're visiting either.
Perhaps, you'll have a better chance of asking this image to be replaced with one that doesn't contain an SM bear and dildo.
Mgm
On 4/3/06, herostratus@comcast.net herostratus@comcast.net wrote:
Jimbo -
I hate to ask this, and wouldn't if I could think of a better solution, but would you please consider an out-of-process deletion of the image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hikari_Hayashibara_Manga.jpg
Which illustrates the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon
This is a Manga drawing of a female about age seven, rear view, kneeling on bed, looking back over shoulder. Underpants pulled down revealing buttocks, subject is holding a toy stuffed bear which wears sado-masochism regalia (studded leather straps) and a prominant strap-on dildo.
I know that we don't shy from including shocking or revolting images on the 'pedia, but this is just over the top, all the way to just plain evil.
I don't think this is the kind of image that you want to get hit with during an interview. I also don't think this ia good way to surprise our readers in countries where this image is illegal, and I don't think its inclusion reflects well on the 'pedia or attracts the kind of publicity and readership (and editorship) that we want. So I wanted to bring the image to your attention. If you're OK with it, or are not OK with deleting it out-of-process, that's your call.
There has been much discussion on the [[Lolicon]] talk page and recently on the Images for Deletion, with no clear consensus to delete, and the next step absent a deletion by fiat is Request for Comments. That will certainly result in much typing and probably in no consensus to delete, and I'd rather see if you will just destroy the image before going through all that.
Thanks for your attention, Herostratus
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