Pete, Please suggest a revised wording that you feel would be clearer. Then we can request that the board adopt it and amend the resolution accordingly.
Andreas On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > The resolution wording is: > >> >> ---o0o--- >> >> We feel that it is important and ethical to obtain subject consent for >> the use of such media, in line with our special mission as an educational >> and free project. We feel that seeking consent from an image's subject is >> especially important in light of the proliferation of uploaded photographs >> from other sources, such as Flickr, where provenance is difficult to trace >> and subject consent difficult to verify. >> >> ---o0o--- >> >> I don't see anything ambiguous about that. >> > > I find it highly ambiguous, and while I tend to agree with you that > probably the majority of nude images on Commons should be deleted due to > lack of explicit and verifiable declarations of consent, I do not feel the > wording quoted above would be helpful in persuading others of that. (In > addition, the absence of a clearly documented process for obtaining and > expressing consent doesn't help. Again, something that anybody can do, very > little technical knowledge required.) > > "Consent" is a verb that is only useful in its transitive form. It is > meaningless to say "the subject consents." Consents *to what*? "...for > the use of such media" is not specific. Also, "we feel" is not language > that lends itself to strong project-specific policies. > > -Pete > [[User:Peteforsyth]] > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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