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This page is designed to highlight the approach taken within Wikipedia with regard to what some contributors regard as pornography. There is no formal policy, or indeed definition (the Wikipedia:Profanity article has a semi-policy, but the discussion of generalities such as Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images seems to be less popular than discussion of specific examples); despite this there is frequent debate on related subjects. This page is designed to point to some of what has been decided or not decided; as usual, discussion about this page and related subjects should take place on the talk page.

Jimbo in general endorses displaying topical images, even if some consider them obscene, but he once removed a photograph of autofellatio from its relevant article, with the following comment:

"This image is completely unacceptable for wikipedia -- I don't even consider this borderline." [1]

After some reverts by various editors, Jimbo himself stated:

"for now the link version is a decent compromise" [2]

The image was subsequently deleted for copyright violation, and replaced by a drawing, which was added to the article. [3] A month later, a free-licensed image was added as a link following the earlier compromise. [4]

Thus, Jimbo Wales feels that there are limits on what can be displayed at Wikipedia.

Some examples of debates, decisions and non-decisions

-A collage of nude pictures of Charlotte Ross was removed from Wikipedia. The record of the discussion is at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/Charlotterossnypdblue.

-The debate about Kate Winslet's breasts at Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/KateWinsletTitanic while a different debate at Talk:Titanic (1997 movie) on use of the same image talked about a compromise

-An extensive debate filling six pages of archives at Talk:Lolicon regarding a drawing of a seminude seven-year-old girl with a dildo and a teddy bear in S&M regalia was resolved by an out-of-process deletion of the image by an admin, who was congratulated by Jimbo.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PORN