2009/4/30 Anthony <[email protected]>: > 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?
I suppose not - the same principles apply to Wikisource as apply to Commons. >> 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. There isn't really any context there, though. Just a few details about the source and the licensing. > 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> I would expect so. I'm not that familiar with commons policy, so there might be a rule I don't know of that would ban it, but I'd be surprised. (Well, there might be a rule about using descriptive filenames...) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
