[WikiEN-l] Naughty/violent pictures

Wed Feb 16 16:01:00 UTC 2005

On 2/16/05 9:39 AM, "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:

> David Gerard said:
>> Christopher Mahan (chris_mahan at yahoo.com) [050216 14:27]:
>>> --- Arno M <redgum46 at lycos.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> It is not an encycopedia's task to do PR for terrorists,
>>>> especially
>>>> ones who are as ruthless as these.
>> 
>>> Then Auschwitz pics are out of the question, right?
>> 
>> 
>> I don't know if anyone's working on code for the inline vs link user
>> option, but it would probably beat the fork that appears to be coming
>> on the issue.
> 
> Are forks such a bad idea?  It would solve the child-safe problem.  The
> adult Wikipedia could possibly also drop a lot of the trivia that are
> mostly of interest to children.  TV show episode guides, comics, games and
> the like.  Presumably article and history information could still be
> interchanged.

Yeah, television, comics, games -- trivia for children. Boo, popular and low
culture. Why won't everyone realize that the only things they should be
thinking about are Handelian overtures and eating brussels sprouts?

I adore Handel and good fresh brussels sprouts, but really. Contemporary and
popular art and culture are not trivia for children.