> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sarah Stierch
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> This is a NSFW photo....
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Korean_Vulva2.jpg
>>
>> Five for deletion, two for keep. This is its third nomination.
>>
>> An admin came in today and declared it being kept because "No valid
>> reason
>> for deletion, per previous decisions. Person is not recognizable." It
>> has
>> been nominated twice, by anon IP's who have simply declared "porn" or
>> "obscene" as the deletion reason (not enough of a reason).
>>
>> I nominated it, like I do many things, because it was unused on any
>> project
>> since its upload in March of 2009, it's uneducational, and the poor
>> description proves that. I also think it's poor quality - if we need an
>> "educational photo of a vulva" we have two really fab ones on the
>> [[vulva]]
>> article. Which of course was argued (a nude photo of a headless woman
>> blow
>> drying her hair in heels with the blow dryer cord and shadow in the
>> shot..
>> come...on...), and as FloNight noted, we can probably have some high
>> quality
>> photos of a nude woman using a blow dryer that aren't taken in the
>> bedroom
>> for the project..if it's that in demand.
>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_Vulva2.jpg>
>>
>
> I'd be concerned about this user's track record of uploads, this the only
> one not deleted:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jonghap
>
> Presumably if there is/was File:Korean Vulva3.jpg and File:Korean
> Vulva2.jpg, then there was File:Korean Vulva1.jpg which is gone now.
>
> On copyright issues alone, I am concerned about this image, as well as
> regarding consent, given the private location of the photo.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie

Yes, the context is being ignored, particularly the choice of name for
the image, transmogrifying an innocent image of a nude woman into an
oriental sex image.

Fred



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