That reminds me again of a really cool Guardian ad that ran on UK TV years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsccRkLLzU It's a good illustration of how assumptions can be wrong, and how framing can predispose you. (Captioning and file naming are part of that, of course.) On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Russavia <russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Kevin, >> >> Feel free to have one of the people who don't have a nasty head injury >> ask me the question. That would be fine, and I would actually prefer >> it. Given your head injury, I'm actually a little surprised that your >> friends did think of asking me themselves under the circumstances. >> >> Cheers >> >> Russavia >> >> > > Cutting to the chase, bearing in mind the location and other visual cues, > I personally would also assume that the description was indeed apt. In > other words, if I saw those women standing there, I'd assume they were > prostitutes too. > > However, assumptions can be wrong. It would be wise for Commons to err on > the side of caution, and not label potentially identifiable women as > prostitutes on the basis of an unknown individual's upload to Commons. > > This is a good example: > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Street_prostitute_EP_Blvd_02_Memphis_TN.jpg > > She might well be a prostitute. She might also (for example) just have had > a tiff with her ex-boyfriend, who snapped this picture. To be wrong in one > out of a hundred cases like that is one time too many. > > In topic areas like that, I'd be far more comfortable relying on an image > from a verifiable source like the one you mentioned in the deletion > discussion: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9.000919_Pattaya_streetscene5.jpg > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
