[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Wed May 12 08:42:46 UTC 2004

Erik Moeller wrote:

>If we are more forgiving of our own biases than of those of other  
>cultures, then we effectively endorse a certain "POV" of what is and what  
>isn't offensive, and this flies in the face of everything this project  
>stands for. The standard of "near universal offensiveness" is the only one  
>which avoids this problem.
>  
>
In that case, I think "public depiction of close-up explicit images of 
genitalia" meets the standard pretty handily in most of the world, with 
a few minor exceptions of portions of the world that are highly 
over-represented amongst Wikipedians.

-Mark