[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Tue May 11 17:42:33 UTC 2004

Erik Moeller a écrit:
> Anthere-
> 
>>We censor pictures of clitoris on the english wikipedia.
> 
> 
> It was not censored, it was moved away. I had repeatedly argued against  
> that, but the outcome of the vote was:
> 9 people in favor of embedding a photo in the article
> 8 people in favor of using a drawing in the article and linking to a photo
> 1 person in favor uf using neither a drawing nor a photo
> 
> Of the 9 people in favor of keeping a photo in the article, 2 didn't want  
> to use the *particular* photo that we have, which they argued looks like  
> retouched pornography (and indeed it does, if you look at earlier versions  
> of the image). So that makes "embed drawing, link to photo" the strongest  
> position.
> 
> No such vote was held on the Abu Ghraib article.
> 
> I agree with you that our policies should be consistent. My suggestion  
> would be:
> * picture that is universally considered offensive -> link
> * picture that is considered offensive by some, not by others -> embed
> 
> One should never err on the side of censorship. I consider the acts that  
> were committed in Abu Ghraib offensive, but not the photos of these acts.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik

Voting on the clitoris page was an error, because it was voting for a 
particular case, rather than trying to fix a general situation.

Okay. So, let us set a consistent policy on this.
I totally approved
 > * picture that is universally considered offensive -> link
 > * picture that is considered offensive by some, not by others -> embed

Fortunately, I fixed the clitoris page, otherwise, we had
-> clitoris -> link -> universally considered offensive
-> torture -> embedded -> considered offensive by some, not by others

Which I do not think is consistent with reality.