On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
David: I haven't seen anyone assert that the image in question isn't a violation of the principle of least astonishment. I've seen several people suggest the image was acceptable for other reasons. If you can articulate a reasonable (i.e., not full of snark and one that indicates you've read at least most of the ongoing discussion) argument that putting the image in question on Commons frontpage (and the frontpage of numerous other projects in the process,) is not a violation of the principle of least astonishment, I'd love to hear it. Especially if you craft your argument to recognize the fact that the image was both displayed on projects that didn't speak any of the languages it was captioned in, and given that most Wikimedia viewers can't actually play our video formats. I guess you could argue that the resolution only says that the board "supports" the POLA rather than requires it, but that's a rather weak argument for putting a grainy black and white stack of dead corpses linking to a video many can't play that's only captioned in a handful of langauges on the frontpage of a project that serves projects in 287 different languages.
I think David was reacting to your bold assertion that the next time you determine Commons has violated a Board resolution, drastic action would be taken. This suggests some certainty on your part that the Board and stewards agree with your judgment. I haven't seen evidence of that. You can certainly advocate that action be taken, but dire warnings of certain consequences seem a bit beyond your authority to issue.