Severed head (wasRe: [WikiEN-l] Offensive photos policy)

Wed May 12 23:19:57 UTC 2004

I actually just looked at this image now, and I must say it's not really 
nearly as gruesome as I had expected.  It's a fairly small and grainy 
photo, and a minimum of blood or gore is visible.  It's disturbing in a 
conceptual sense primarily, in that the executioner is triumphantly 
holding up the head as a trophy.  I'd say as far as potentially 
offensive photos go, this is far less graphic than a lot of what we have 
on Wikipedia.  I had assumed otherwise simply because I hadn't actually 
looked at the image; as it stands now I'm not sure it shouldn't go 
inline, unless we adopt a fairly low threshold for offensiveness.

-Mark