Thomas,
You have an uphill fight on this. Some of the worse deletion decisions the community has made, have been from people claiming "censorship" and getting massive popular support: I sometimes wonder if a majority of wikipedia editors are still teenage (literally) rebels.
There is another lingering proposal which I think originally came from Erik Moeller which is to tag content with an off/on switch on child-safe, "potentially offensive" or similar. This was in response to a complaint about us removing some gruesome holocaust images from the Schools wikipedia.
The advantages would be an increased preparedness on the part of schools to give access. The disadvantage would be a switch which many people would not bother with and the usual fruitcakes would abuse. We did look at whether the schools wikipedia and Wikipedia 1.0 could be converged as projects if such a switch existed.
On balance there were other priorities.
Andrew/ BozMo
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/23 Thomas Larsen larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com:
I think we disagree over whether or not including indecent images in an encyclopedia constitutes good scholarship. (Yes, I do think the image is obscene, but that is irrelevant.) I argue no; you seem to argue yes; and we'll just have to agree to disagree.
"indecent" is also a matter of opinion. And equally orthogonal to whether we should write about it, illustrating what on earth we're talking about as we do pretty much every other encyclopedically noteworthy image we talk about.
That it's stupid, crass and distasteful does not mean it isn't of encyclopedic noteworthiness - it's in far too many "worst album covers of all time" lists for that.
Encyclopedic noteworthiness has no relation, positive or negative, to the concerns you're raising, so you're coming across as missing the point.
I, too, lament the shocking lack of illustrative material in our article on [[shock site]]s.
-Mark
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