[WikiEN-l] [[Abu Graib prisoner abuse (no pictures)]] on VfD

Fri Nov 19 07:31:19 UTC 2004

I have placed [[Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (no pictures)]] on VfD because 
this it sets a very bad precedent. There is absolutely no way of keeping 
the articles in sync properly (not everyone who edits will be willing to 
edit two pages, especially if there Internet connection is slow or 
Wikipedia is running slowly).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse_%28no_pictures%29

I think people are going to have to come to a better solution than this, 
or the software will need some modification (for instance, flagging 
images as potentially offensive and giving users a setting to see/not 
see these images).

I really hope that other articles won't take up this, for instance 
[[clitoris]] might decide to fork over disputes over the image of a 
women's vagina on the page (I personally think that these people need to 
just get over it, but I'm not everyone). My concern, however, is how to 
keep the articles in sync once they have been duplicated.

Further: it's a slipperyly slope when we start allowing dupes: we have a 
similar situation where we had [[Zionist revisionism]] and 
[[Israeli-Palestinian history denial]]. Two seperate articles, yet both 
talking about very similar things. Perhaps not quite the same, but you 
can see how messy things get when we allow duplication of articles!

Ta bu shi da yu