[WikiEN-l] For your consternation...

[George Herbert]

For your consideration and consternation...

Is it:
A) Ilegal
B) Immoral
C) Fattening

...if US Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Agency
staffers remove an image repeatedly from a Wikipedia article, which
came from a Department of Energy press photo, showing the Q clearance
badge of the now-former head of NNSA.  The claimed reason for deletion
is that it's illegal to show the badge, despite the fact that Linton
Brooks wore it in public all the time, there are numerous public press
photos of it, and that the image in question came from an unclassified
government press image freely released (though, they subsequently
erased that section of the image with photoshop)...

Several of us have asked the people removing it to identify themselves
and explain whether the image was subsequently classified or tell us
what law prevents us from legally hosting it, if there is one, and
have heard nothing back.  All they are doing is deleting it over and
over again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Q_clearance&action=history

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com