[Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:


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> The English Wikipedia community, like any other, has always contained a wide spectrum of opinion on such matters. We have seen this in the past, with long discussions about contentious cases like the goatse image, or the Katzouras photos. That is unlikely to ever change.
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> But we do also subscribe to the principle of least astonishment. If the average reader finds our image choices odd, or unexpectedly and needlessly offensive, then we alienate a large part of our target audience, and may indeed only attract an unnecessarily limited demographic as contributors.
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You completely and utterly misrepresent what the principle of least
astonishment is supposed to address. It is a matter of where people
should be directed, when there are confliting disambiguation issues.
It doesn't refer to content issues in the slightest. Period. We don't
say you can read an article about X and not see pictures of X. That is
ridiculous.


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