I wonder whether you could have a sub-page with
exactly the same text but with the pictures, so that
you would have a link at the top to 'switch on the
pictures'. It would be kind of tricky to maintain I
suppose.
Mark
--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Weighing in on this issue, I think the pictures are
on the borderline of
what we should put inline, but should probably stay.
The sexually
explicit parts have been blurred out anyway, so
they're not problematic
on that account.
I like the way [[clitoris]] has been handled
generally (no pun
intended), though perhaps there's a better way of
doing it. Having it a
simple link makes it so that anyone can easily find
it (an on-site link,
so it doesn't depend on an external server), but so
that people who are
reading the article don't have to have it in their
peripheral vision the
whole time if they find it uncomfortable for
whatever reason.
Conceptually disturbing images are somewhat
different than graphic
ones. People might be disturbed by pictures of
concetration camps, but
these are more conceptually disturbing than graphic,
and are fairly
integral to an article on, say, the [[Holocaust]].
On the other hand,
if there were gruesome pictures of medical
experiments being performed,
we might want to put those on as linked instead of
inline.
The main reason I'd favor that approach is that
otherwise there'll be
whole sections of Wikipedia that people are somewhat
afraid to visit,
especially in public areas. Someone should be able
to read [[torture]]
without seeing graphic images of torture; they
should be able to read
[[automobile accident]] without seeing bloody
corpses plastered on the
roadway, and so on. If the picture might be useful,
they ought to be
able to see it, but that should be up to them.
But back to the point, I think the [[Abu Graith]]
images in particular
are okay, though perhaps some better placement is
possible. Although
I've wrangled on that page a bit myself, I do think
they currently come
across in a moderately documentary tone, rather than
a pursuasive tone
intended to shock the reader into a particular
action.
-Mark
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