On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Should commons allow images which are biased? > > Can an image be biased out of context? Can text? > It is the usage of the images > that may or may not be biased, the images themselves are inherently > neutral. It's not clear to me what that is supposed to mean, but from my understanding of what you're saying I think I have to disagree. I would say that http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Racistcampaignposter1.jpg, the image in itself, is biased, but that the context at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg renders it neutral. But this is probably shorthand for a more precise meaning. Would commons accept a racist caricature of Obama with no context, which someone uploaded as File:Picture834.jpg? Maybe so. Or maybe that would fall under some other rule. I really don't know. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Racistcampaignposter1.jpg> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
