On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 May 2010 23:39, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> The problem there is the name. If you call it censorship (which it >> isn't) then people oppose it. If you don't call it censorship, people >> will still wave the "not censored" banner. The idea of Wikipedia not > >> See also the talk page: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Image_content_guidelines > > > On the talk page, I mostly see people calling it out for the > censorship stalking horse it was. > > You can tag a goat "a very special sort of chicken," but people will > see through that.
So you are saying anything labelled "content guidelines" will be called "censorship"? That's silly. You have to have limits when writing an encyclopedia, otherwise you just end up with a mess like the internet. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
