Jimmy Wales wrote:
I agree about not needing new policies, although I do
think that some of
the default assumptions may need to be moved, with respect to images
which have been uploaded. I think a move of default assumptions would
go a long way toward nuking a ton of fair use images that we would
prefer not to have in en.wikipedia.
Yes, writing new policies only confuses people, when what is needed is
the courage to enforce the ones that already exist.
But the one thing that I hope can healthily come out of
this discussion
is a general feeling of empowerment by admins to actually *enforce*
policy in the face of trolling by pedohiles and the like, or the sorts
of people who think that merely by camping out and pushing POV on an
article, they should have more of a say of what goes into it than admins.
We had the same lolicon cartoon appear to illustrate that word in
Wiktionary, and probably the same proportion of people who objected to
it, and always who want to keep it as a part of some free speech
crusade. I feel on safe ground enforcing the elimination of that
picture from the project, but oftentimes in other circumstances
enforcement is a tough call because the amount of flak can become
overwhelming. A senior administrator or bureaucrat has an extra stock
of goodwill to draw upon, but that does not make it easier when there's
a need to come down heavy on long-standing contributors.
BTW, congrats for having your "Everybody tells jokes, but we still need
comedians" make it to Quote of the Day on Google.
Ec