I don't want to comment on the NSFW or educational nature of the image since
they are excellent arguments already being made.I just want to ask if
Anime/Hentai images are featured on main page, irrespective of the content?

Theo

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Aaron Adrignola
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Cecil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.
>> Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the
>> restriction that a file has to be educational.
>>
>
> Related to another comment posted earlier, this section [1] also notes that
> images in use by projects are considered automatically to be useful for an
> educational purpose, but those that are not and which are judged to be not
> educational can be deleted.
>
> I've successfully nominated several hundred personal images of users for
> deletion using this criterion, as they were not in use.
>
> The proper procedure if this image is disliked would be to see if it falls
> within one of the examples [2] of items that would be out of scope if
> unused.  It can then be nominated for deletion.
>
> However, as already seen, whether an unused image is educational is subject
> to quite a bit of debate.
>
>
> [1]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#File_in_use_in_another_Wikimedia_project
>
> [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Examples
>
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