[WikiEN-l] Jimbo on Commons

[David Goodman]

Censorship is normally used to mean a refusal to include something on
the basis of content, not on the basis of form or external
characteristics. Not including a picture because it does not have a
free license is not censorship, not including it because it's of poor
quality is not censorship, not including it because of what it shows
is censorship. NOT CENSORED means in the image context that there is
no image that we reject because of what it portrays.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, David Gerard wrote:
>> On the talk page, I mostly see people calling it out for the
>> censorship stalking horse it was.
>>
>> You can tag a goat "a very special sort of chicken," but people will
>> see through that.
>
> Well, it is a form of censorship, but just removing someone's private social
> security number is a form of censorship.  The no censorship olicy isn't any
> mor eabsolute than any other policy, and never has been.
>
> Heck, removing an image that's fair use under law but not under policy is a
> form of censorship.
>
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