[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and "indecent" content

[toddmallen at gmail.com]

You mean, it isn't? And I was so sure! See, bring in that knowledge and fact stuff and everything goes to hell. So much easier to pass judgment without looking.

-----Original Message-----

From:  Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>
Subj:  Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and "indecent" content
Date:  Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:40 am
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To:  English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

Thomas Larsen wrote:
>> Actually seeing the image is arguably critical to having a nuanced
>> understanding of the debate about the image. As an encyclopedia
>> Wikipedia believes it has an obligation to try to be maximally
>> informative.
>>     
>
> Is seeing the image really critical? I personally don't think so. For
> one, I haven't looked at the image myself, and have no intention of
> doing so, as I noted in my post. Isn't it possible to just describe
> the picture textually, without actually showing it? More importantly,
> is showing the image actually scholarly? My main argument against
> inclusion is that it isn't.
>
> —Thomas Larsen
>   
How can you conclude that without ever take a glimps of the image?

This sort of argumentation is very strange to me. It is like: I don't 
need to take a glimps of any astronomical observations or physical 
theories, I just THINK the earth is the middlepoint of the universe.


Ting

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