MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Children involved in sexually explicit acts is illegal in all the ways that come to mind. Most picture gallery links are non-encyclopedic spam. I don't see why we would need new policies to cover this.
I agree about not needing new policies, although I do think that some of the default assumptions may need to be moved, with respect to images which have been uploaded. I think a move of default assumptions would go a long way toward nuking a ton of fair use images that we would prefer not to have in en.wikipedia.
But the one thing that I hope can healthily come out of this discussion is a general feeling of empowerment by admins to actually *enforce* policy in the face of trolling by pedohiles and the like, or the sorts of people who think that merely by camping out and pushing POV on an article, they should have more of a say of what goes into it than admins.
--Jimbo