[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled

Tue May 11 11:20:45 UTC 2004

I understand. Thanks for the explanations :-)

So, we should make an extra effort not to be deciding our editorial 
content through the pov of Boston Globe :-)

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Daniel P.B.Smith a écrit:
>     From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> 
> [snippages]
> 
>     We censor pictures of clitoris on the english wikipedia.
>     We censor clitoris pictures, while billion of humans on Earth have a
>     clitoris, and that is something perfectly normal to have.
> 
>     We censor clitoris for the motive that people could be shocked.
> 
>     However, we do not censor pictures of torture and humiliation. Forgive
>     me, but I am troubled.So, explain to me why we show shocking images
>     of human humiliation,
>     while we cant display clitoris, because chaste eyes would be shocked ?
> 
> 
> It troubles me, too.
> 
> If you want an _explanation..._ as opposed to a justification... I'd say 
> that many Wikipedians seem to implicitly judge the suitability of 
> pictures in Wikipedia by applying the standards of major U.S. 
> newspapers. As of today, I can't imagine the Boston Globe printing a 
> photograph of a clitoris; I _can_ imagine it printing a carefully 
> stylized diagram of one, although I'm not sure whether they ever have. 
> And they _have_ printed some of the abuse pictures, with genitalia blurred.
> 
> The New York Times used to, and I believe still does bear the slogan 
> "All the news that's fit to print." I suspect many people follow the 
> judgements of the New York TImes. I don't say this is right, I'm saying 
> I think it's what many of us do.
> 
> I don't mean that newspapers specifically are arbiters; I mean that 
> there is some weird cultural consensus that can be observed by watching 
> what newspapers do.
> 
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