[WikiEN-l] Re: Offensive photos policy

Wed May 12 20:09:43 UTC 2004

I thank you Jimbo and Pedro and many others.
I would prefer it deleted. But I understand that it may be important in 
some people opinions. So, I won't argue for it to be deleted at all of 
course.

ant

Jimmy Wales a écrit:
> There is no issue of censorship involved in having the good sense and
> good taste to not automatically display graphic photos that are likely
> to be offensive or upsetting to large numbers of people.
> 
> There will always be difficult questions of where to draw the line, I
> suppose, but we solve that issue in other cases by "going meta",
> i.e. avoiding the controversy.
> 
> With most issues, the wiki process works perfectly fine.  It is almost
> never "either/or" with the text of an article -- creative people can
> almost always find a way to compromise on a text that is different
> from either of two extreme positions.
> 
> With photos, the "show" versus "don't show" really is an "either/or",
> though.  The only possible compromise, and one which I think will
> almost always work just fine, is to *link* to the picture, with
> suitable warnings, and leave it at that.
> 
> That is the proposal that Anthere has proposed in this case, and that
> is what I support.
> 
> I do think that there are cases of photos that we ought to not even
> have on our site at all.  Were it not for the extreme newsworthiness
> of this particular photo, and it's likely longterm political
> importance, I would argue for deleting it.  This is not rotten.com.
> 
> I think that there is great validity to the concern for the family and
> for human dignity in general, with respect to photos of this nature.
> 
> --Jimbo