[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

[Marcus Buck]

Amory Meltzer hett schreven:
> This is nuts.  Literally, nothing has changed.  Stuff on Wikimedia
> sites needs to be either educational or aimed at furthering the goals
> of the project and the foundation.  We don't host articles about my
> her breasts or his penis, and we don't need to host images of them
> either.  Arguing otherwise is just looking for a webhost.
>   
The thing that has changed is the fact that this was decided by the 
community, by admins who have earned their rights in a community vote, 
and according to policies. Take e.g. 
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A9licien_Rops_-_Sainte-Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se.png>. 
That image is a 19th century artwork, a drawing,  from an important 
artist. It was uploaded to Commons in 2006 and never questioned. But 
Jimbo didn't file a deletion request, he didn't even put a speedy 
delete. He just deleted it with a generic message given as reason. Two 
times the deletion was reverted by longstanding Commons admins who 
wanted to uphold Commons policy about deletions and two times Jimbo 
deleted it again, with the same generic reason. At the moment the file 
is again undeleted by a third Commons admin. (Jimbo is not online at the 
moment to overturn that decision.)

I think this is a really obvious example how Jimbo breaks policies and 
why large parts of the Commons community are upset.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox