[WikiEN-l] Deleting the Lolicon picture

Mon Apr 3 18:18:10 UTC 2006

I have just deleted Image:Hikari Hayashibara Manga.jpg.  It was an
image of a young girl, her bottom exposed, holding a teddy bear with
BDSM armcuffs and a strap-on dildo (not my description...).

This image bad in two main ways:

1) It is grossly inappropriate.  It is a poor reflection on
Wikipedia's goals and would serve our detractors.  We wave "no
censorship" around to justify outrageous images.  This image is
extremely harmful to Wikipedia's progression to build an
encyclopaedia.

2) The fair use claim is extremely dubious.  IANAL, but it seems
generally accepted that there must be reference to the picture in the
text to justify its inclusion.  That is not present here.  This image
is harmful to Wikipedia's progression as a free encyclopaedia.

It doesn't seem hard to fathom that this image has a huge potential to
harm Wikipedia.  We should, at this point, ask whether the image
justifies this.  Can the article be understood without the image? 
Undoubtedly yes.  Can a determined reader find an example if the image
is deleted?  Undoubtedly yes.  Does the benefit of including this
picture, as opposed to any other lolicon pictures on Wikipedia,
outweigh the potential it has to harm Wikipedia?  Undoubtedly no.

The image deletion process has shown itself incapable of removing this
image.  The process is demonstrably broken when there is a hint of
controversy.  I don't take stepping outside accepted policy and
process lightly.  Here, however, it is absolutely right and absolutely
necessary.

I apologise to any who see my actions as outrageously rogue-ish.  I
wish there were an alternative, less radical way.

--
Sam