[WikiEN-l] Re: Suggestions for a work-safe encyclopedia

Thu Apr 14 17:17:58 UTC 2005

Stan Shebs wrote:

> I'm describing the realities
> of the workplace - responsible adults with mortgages and families
> depending on them don't get themselves fired just to make a free
> speech point. You can fulminate about it all you want, but that's
> not going to change anything.
>
> A WP with nudity on every page (which sounds great to me actually,
> much more interesting than what we have now :-) - I can contribute
> scans of my "nudes on postage stamps") is certainly doable, and
> will no doubt have a contingent characterizing the result as a
> "great encyclopedia", but its readership will be rather limited.
> You can expect to see a great many forks at that point, and most
> editors will likely migrate to one of them, because they're going
> to go where the readers are to be found. So the situation will
> resolve itself in favor of a somewhat restrictive image policy
> sooner or later; just a question of whether you want to do it now,
> or after a painful forking process. 

Tony,

Do what I did here.  Take away the personal attack from Stan's message, 
and then read the rest.  Stan is simply telling the truth.

Tom Haws