Yes. I would agree that image is the other side of the line and into pornography.
Tom Morton On 16 May 2011, at 23:22, Dan Rosenthal <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel like this image from the same author: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Futanari.png might be crossing the > lines. Given Niabot's user page loudly railing against Commons being > "censored", I'd say the issue is less "art" and more "lets see who we can > shock and/or piss off." > > -Dan > On May 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > >> Ah... this is one of those perennial issues that is unlikely to be solved >> this time around. >> >> I think casting this a gender issue is incorrect; certainly amongst my group >> of friends those who would not appreciate the image are fairly evenly split >> between male/female. I think most rational adults can tell the difference >> between porn (or gratuitous sexuality) and nudity. >> >> The other problem is not recognizing this as art, in the same way as >> artistic nudes. Given the ease of making images nowadays there is an awful >> lot of them out there - and this one certainly runs a fine line. It's an >> area that is always going to be subjective. >> >> Commons is, surely, about media. Is this good media? I am no expert of this >> genre, but it seems reasonably decent. At the end of the day, NOTCENSORED >> does come into play - it is a legitimate genre, where the image is judged to >> be of a high quality. It just happens that it offends the sensibilities of, >> by comparison to other issues, a largish portion of the editing community. >> >> There is an irony in there somewhere. >> >> Tom >> >> On 16 May 2011 21:10, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2011/5/16 David Richfield <[email protected]>: >>>> How on earth can this become the POTD on any Wikipedia? It's >>>> tolerably well executed art, but utterly non-notable. >>> >>> The Commons Picture of the Day process allows photos / illustrations >>> of a very high technical quality to be promoted even if they have no >>> claim to notability at all. In general, "notability" has very little >>> to do with Commons at any level. >>> >>> -Robert Rohde >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
