Ksm10

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  Thanks, TeaDrinker! Ksm10 08:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Nekkid folks on Wikipedia

I noticed your userpage said you were researching Communications decency act and Wikipedia. You may have already seen some of these, but some interesting censorship discussions have taken place around here which may be of interest:

• WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_censored Official policy on censorship of nudity, obsenity, etc. Until recently called "Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors."
• Wikipedia:Profanity a guidline on the use of profanity.
• Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images and Wikipedia:Image censorship Rejected policy (well, many policy proposals) on graphic and disturbing images
• Wikipedia:Pornography A project to collect information about how Wikipedia deals with porn
• Wikipedia:Free speech An essay which (from experience) is how most editors view free speech on Wikipedia.
• Two nearly identical collections of pictures of nudity on Wikipedia, one of which was deleted and the other was kept (I'm not sure why). They were created for no other discernable purpose than to have nude images in one place.

• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Markaci/Nudity Kept
• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:-Ril-/Nudity Deleted

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipornia A deletion discussion for a now deleted article (deleted per the policy on neologisms, WP:NEO). It was a word coined on porn site (which one is slipping my mind) for going to Wikipedia specifically to look at nudity. I'm sure with some googling you can find it.

The talk pages of many of the policy and guidline pages also have lots of discussion of these ideas as well. I hope this gets you started (or maybe it is too much irrelevant fluff...). I'm not sure quite what you're looking for, but I am happy to help locate stuff if you need anything. Thanks for the interest in Wikipedia. --TeaDrinker 19:33, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Request for help

Hi TeaDrinker. Thanks for posting up that information on my page. For Part I of my paper, I am going through a highly abbreviated discussion/history of Wikipedia. I was hoping to take you up on your kind offer of help. Specifically, I was wondering if you knew of any instances of Wikipedia policies changing or promulgating as a result of the Seigenthaler incident. I know that now unregistered users cannot create new pages. I've also run across WP:OFFICE. Can you (or anyone, for that matter) think of anything else? Thanks! -- Ksm10 22:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, history of any depth may have me stumped. I have not been editing for as much time as perhaps would be helpful. One source of (05-06) history is the Wikipedia:Signpost, which is breif news spots on the material. I am unaware of any other fallout from the Seigenthaler business beyond WP:OFFICE and restricting page creation to regsitered users. Perhaps Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy is related (although it is perhaps more geared toward fighting vandalism short-term), and an increased awareness of libel law (see Wikipedia:Libel and one of the warning for breaking the policy, {{defwarn}}). I'll bet you will be able to get a more complete reply by posting a question on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). Thanks, and sorry for the delay in replying. --TeaDrinker 00:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Replying Your Request

Sorry to take so long getting back to you. Have been having a problem with my internet servce at home, so I haven't checked in here in a couple of weeks. I probably am not one of the best people to contact about the SWeigenthaller controversy or related issues because I am not in a very good position to assess how this community as a whole has adjusted to it. I have been a long-time fan of and user of the Wikipedia, but really only a negligible contributor (I know I should remedy that, but even retaining internet service has been a struggle for me in recent years). At any rate, I overheard an interview with Seigenthaler on a televison show one evening when I did have my servcie connected and was moved to reply immediately since I think the work of this community is very very important. Incredibly, to my thinking, all have been very gracious about giving me a listen. My writing inetrests, while at one time journalistic, have shifted in rfecent years to ficition, and I have been exporing the possibilities of the emerging mythologies of the global era (a euphemistic way of describing paranoid imaginings as a basis of fiction, I am afraid). I have downloaded a great deal of information about Seigenthaler and keep eiterh promising or threatening, depending upon one's poitn of view, to write something based upon it all. But life keeps intervening. I woudl seriously recommend getting in contact with EngineerScotty, who is intelligent, knowledgeable of CDA related issues, and appears to be quite sane (a rare combination in these times). If I have any thoughts I'll be back in touch, although that my take a while. Marcopolo 19:10, 9 April 2006 (UTC)