[WikiEN-l] Sorted

[Fred Bauder]

>
> In a message dated 2/23/2008 2:53:57 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> shimgray at gmail.com writes:
>
> I find  it surprising that you seem to not notice there are extremist
> viewpoints  demanding the inclusion of these images, as well as
> extremist viewpoints  demanding their removal.>>
>
>
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>
> No this doesn't represent my point-of-view.
> My point-of-view is, we have images of each major religious figure.
> That is standard, consistent, and neutral, from *our internal*
> point-of-view.
> That point has been made clear cross-wiki, it's not new.  In general,  we
> add
> images to any article, we are encouraged to do so because readers like
> images.
>
> The *extremists for*, are arguing, that images are standard, helpful, and
> informative.  That we include them, regardless of whether they are
> photographs,
> paintings or drawings.  That they do not necessarily represent  the
> actual
> truth of what a person looked like.
>
> The *extremists against* are arguing from the point of their own
> religious
> dogma, asking us to support that dogma.  They are, in general, only  here
> to
> argue against the images, and have very little to no edits in other
> articles.
>
> Will Johnson

What you say is not true. I am not a Muslim; I simply counsel avoiding
offense. I have about 20,000 edits, very few to do with Islam.

Fred