--- Rebecca <misfitgirl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Really, I think we could do with some intervention
from Jimbo on
this
issue. I'm a rabid leftie, and one reason I chose to study law was
because I detest censorship. Yet, at the same time, I utterly
refuse
to have to put vile censorship software on my own computer to avoid
seeing inline what shouldn't be there in the first place. I could
really care less about some of the more minor ones, such as
[[Clitoris]], but I'm on record as saying that the day [[Goatse]]
and
similar articles receive according pictures is the day that I leave
Wikipedia and demand that every trace of my involvement on this
site
be removed. I love this site, but I would no longer want to be
personally associated with such a place.
To address the point "what shouldn't be there in the first place":
I suggest that the current conflict resolution process is not
adequate to meet the challenge posed by such image insertion.
I personally don't care for the photo, but, as has been said on this
list, the general wiki process would, in time, rectify the situation.
I think that to meet the need of many people, the media (photo,
whatever) itself needs to be tagged as potentially offensive, and
replaced with an image indicating that the linked media is deemed
offensive, but where such image is clickable to reach the linked
image.
Finally, there needs to be a formal process for complaint, which
would result in the media being image-linked upon receipt of the
complaint, and a formal process similar to arbcom set up to decide on
media inclusion, alternative media, and so on.
Currently these efforts take place all over wikipedia and in lists
and IRC and plenty of people take cheap shots at each other.
This would satisfy the casual browser, like me, as well as those who
wish greater depth of knowledge, like me.
Again, Ambi, I apologize for the bar reference.
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Chris Mahan
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