[WikiEN-l] "Censorship" of images on the Arabic Wikipedia

James Farrar james.farrar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 20:17:13 UTC 2008


On 21/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
> James Farrar schrieb:
>
> > On 21/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
>  >> Thomas Dalton schrieb:
>  >>
>  >>  >> Don't even think about adding such a show/hide feature to
>  >>  >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  I got a Level 3 Vandalism warning template on my talk page for doing so.
>  >>  >>  WP:AGF seems to be another policy admins don't have to follow.
>  >>  >
>  >>  > You did something there is quite clearly not a consensus for - that's
>  >>  > either bad faith, or very bad judgement, your choice.
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Did you ever bother to look at
>  >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Muhammad/images
>  >>
>  >>  There are 8 pages full of complaints about the Muhammad images.
>  >>
>  >>  I'd conclude, that there is indeed a strong disagreement
>  >>  to that alleged "consensus".
>  >
>  > "No consensus for action" != "consensus for no action".
>  >
>
>
> I agree.

In which case, you should also appreciate that making a change on a
highly-controversial subject when there is no consensus or such a
change is, at best, bad judgement.



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