[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on Commons

[David Gerard]

On 11 May 2010 00:12, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Can you explain why Wikipedia and Wikimedia tends to avoid having
> explicit guidelines on such matters?


It's a gross NPOV violation.


> My position is that a single sentence ("Do not place shocking or
> explicit pictures into an article unless they have been approved by a
> consensus of editors for that article") is insufficient as guidance.
> The opposing position (which I assume is the one you take, but please
> correct me if I am wrong) is that anything stronger or more detailed
> or specific than that that would tip things over the line towards
> censorship?


I'm certainly not saying "editorial judgement is evil."


- d.