On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:34 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2008/12/23 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > >> It might be worth considering something like this - we don't want >> lurid or shocking images plastered across the site unless they have >> editorial merit, but conversely removing them *merely* for their >> content can prove counterproductive. Some kind of policy that says >> "think hard about it and have a good reason; make sure it needs to be >> there" could turn out to have much of the desired effect. > > > We have that already as an implicit guideline. For God sake don't make > it a "policy", I shudder to contemplate the robotic bureaucracy around > it.
You're a bit late— It's been a policy in some form or another for a fairly long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Image_use_policy&oldid=32570222#Rules_of_thumb See #12; fairly similar to Andrew Gray's formulation. The current version of the page retains the point in an abbreviated form (I prefer the older form— though I think I might have written it, not worth the trouble checking, that it still persists in some form is the important point…) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
