[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

[Benjamin Lees]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Amory Meltzer <amorymeltzer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> ~A
>
>

It's rather unfortunate that Jimbo went beyond deleting low-quality
photographs of penises and deleted what are obviously works of art or
educational illustrations.  Had he stuck to the former, he would
have had the support of a lot of people who are now upset.  If he were to
admit that it was a mistake to delete things that weren't clearly at the
bottom of the barrel (rather than wheel-warring over them!), it would go a
long way toward showing that this actually is about improving the quality of
the project and not about PR or appeasing donors.