[Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Mon Feb 2 13:21:35 UTC 2009


> On a totally off-topic note, Category:SuicideGirls looks to me like
> preview
> pictures to promote a commercial site. While I can see some use for some
> of
> those pictures (like piercing articles, etc), the collection as a whole
> would not fall ,at least IMHO, under "Must be realistically useful for
> educational purpose". How is it any different than the tons of "preview"
> material available to promote the zillion porn sites save, of course, for
> the license? (probably this question should be somewhere on commons, but I
> am not a frequent commons user, I apologize for the off-topic).
>

In any case, aside from the usefulness of the images, I do not see any
rationale for the existence of the above category.

Cheers
Yaroslav





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