I agree with Stan Shebs. I would hope that his view is one that most of my fellow editors could embrace.
--Walter On May 16, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Stan Shebs wrote: > On 5/16/11 7:55 AM, Chris McKenna wrote: >> On Mon, 16 May 2011, geni wrote: >> >>> On 16 May 2011 09:56, Chris McKenna<cmcke...@sucs.org> wrote: >>>> Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is >>>> about? >>> Your statement isn't credible. >> I don't understand what is not credible about my statement? I >> honestly do >> not understand why anybody finds this image objectionable. > > OK then, if you really do not understand, your best course of action > here is to keep quiet, take what others say at face value, and spend > some time to really absorb what it means. You are not going to come > up > with a brilliant comment that causes all readers to abandon their > cherished values and switch to sharing yours. > > The photo of the day, and in general the front page, is all about > making > good first impressions. All the people who value uncensored images > have > already seen Commons by now, and the choice of front page content > doesn't affect them. So what we're really talking about is making a > good first impression on everybody else, and to do that we should > choose > images that are appealing across the broadest range of people > worldwide. That means G-rated, that means no advocacy in current > conflicts, that means no blood, no nasty diseases, etc. Once people > are > "in the door" so to speak, then they can choose whether they want to > go > into the Hall of Fluffy Bunnies or the Dungeon of Sexual Atrocities > Being Committed by People with Oozing Skin Rashes. :-) > > Stan > > (There are days when I'm not really being paid enough to review latest > files. Yuck!!) > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l