[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on Commons

[David Gerard]

On 10 May 2010 23:14, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> I suggest that this is a piss-poor way to create Wikipedia policy.  There's
> a substantial contingent of policy wonks who take any blanket policy statement
> as gospel and use it as an excuse to avoid even *trying* to figure out if
> some suggested exception to that policy is a good idea on the grounds that
> we don't do such things, ever.  It's a triumph of rules lawyering over
> common sense.  Of course, when questioned they will admit that exceptions
> are allowed, but their attitude to any proposed exception remains the same.


I realise Wikipedia is a perpetual ever-refreshing Year Zero, but last
time someone put together a series of options I do recall that they
were resoundingly voted down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_censorship

Perhaps the time is ripe for another try. (I doubt it myself.)


- d.