On 8/24/06, Scott Stevenson wikinetscott@gmail.com wrote:
I always find it strange how folks will argue, "well it's wrong over there so it can be wrong over here". Wrongness elsewhere never lessens wrongness regarding the given item of discussion.
However, that was, of course, not the argument made. Rather the argument was the exact opposite.
Now there are quite a few editors agreeing with what I was saying about NPOV and the lead image as the article's edit history shows (even two editors going so far as to outright remove the image from the article).
Yes, many people find the picture disturbing, as you did, and will try to think of almost any imaginable rationale to make it disappear somehow (again, as you did). Of course, like you, the people actually removing it can't actually quote any policy that would require its removal. But it's a very powerful image, and people just *know* they have to get rid of it somehow.
Jay.