[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

Thu May 14 20:36:23 UTC 2009

Fred is conflating guidelines on style with guidelines on content.

Articles about food items are not banned.
Articles about fiction are not banned.

Fred is advocating banning a *class of articles.*

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

> > I'm sorry, but why is this even a discussion? Wikipedia is not censored.
>
> Wikipedia is censored with respect to a myriad of different sorts of
> content. In fact it is routinely censored, consider articles for
> deletion, just for a start then move on to recipes, dictionary
> definitions, fiction, to say nothing of point of view editing.
>
> However, I think the most productive approach is to create specialized
> versions tailored for audiences which need information such as schools
> and Muslim cultures.
>
> Fred Bauder
>
>
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