[WikiEN-l] new compromise

[Raphael Wegmann]

geni schrieb:
> On 27/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
>>  2. They are fearing a slippery slope.
>>     There are certainly more articles where a minority rejects
>>     certain images. But I can't see how a new message box with
>>     that kind of functionality, would enlarge that problem rather
>>     than reduce it. If members of the Bahá'í Faith, creationists,
>>     Africans or Serbians object to certain images now, they can
>>     already cause trouble by removing them. Why should it be any
>>     worse, when there is a possibility to make
>>     [[Wikipedia:Options to not see an image]] more flexible?
> 
> We can revert removals and blunt force edit waring will get them
> nowhere. Giveing them another tool to forward their campaign though
> would make things harder.
> 

But are they still "forwarding their campaign", when they change
their target from "remove those images" to "give us a possibility
to hide them easily"? Besides, why would it be harder to revert
the addition of a "collapse image message box" than reverting
image removals?

-- 
Raphael