[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

Wed Mar 5 21:55:07 UTC 2008

What nobody has asked is whether these offensive cartoons on Commons are
used anywhere on any project and if so where. If any of them are not
used, they could be deleted.

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:12:23PM +0100, teun spaans wrote:
> May I assume that you oppose the cartoons at the bottom of the gallery?
> 
> It seems to me that the cartoons ridicule Sharon, not the Jewish people.
> Though I can imagine that you take offence to these cartoons, i doubt you
> can say they are racist, perhaps with the exception of the first, "Stop the
> Zionazi hero"
> 
> kind regards,
> teun spaans
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Wikimedia officials, let this be known:
> >
> > As long as there are racist pictures and cartoons in articles of
> > personalities such as Ariel Sharon:
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ariel_Sharon&oldid=9263178
> > The Hebrew Wikipedia community will boycott Commons and not link to pages
> > in
> > that project. We will not allow our readers to be exposed to such pictures
> > placed inapropriatly and insultingly.
> >
> > This is simply disgraceful. These racist and hate-encouraging pictures in
> > galleries as such is not what the Foundation intended, IMHO.
> >
> > Regards,
> > a concerned Hebrew Wikipedian
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