Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-30/Traffic report
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Milowent
Gotta say, using that image for Martin Shkreli was absolutely unnecessary. He may be sleaze but the photo in his entry was totally uncalled for. GamerPro64 19:05, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- Yeah, I don't get it either. I took it out. — Earwig talk 20:04, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Earwig. I was going to complain as well. I went ahead and purged the cache for the single-page edition. Let's remind everyone involved in Signpost creation that the spirit (and possibly even the letter) of WP:BLP applies to non-article-spaces including the Signpost. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- Did the Signpost skip a week?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Earwig. I was going to complain as well. I went ahead and purged the cache for the single-page edition. Let's remind everyone involved in Signpost creation that the spirit (and possibly even the letter) of WP:BLP applies to non-article-spaces including the Signpost. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
- i think some are overreacting to the image, but so be it. Controversial subjects will always cause controversy unless we simply call them "popular subjects". I believe I was fair to the subject, and far fairer than the mainstream press coverage of respected outlets. Some will inevitably disagree and I can respect that..--Milowent • hasspoken 06:24, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Milowent: I suppose that if there had been a reference to a reliable source comparing him to the devil, I wouldn't have had as big an issue. If there had been an explicit quote or paraphrase from that source (e.g. "BIGNAMENEWSOUTLET called PERSON 'Satan incarnate'") then I would have at least checked the reference before complaining and, in rare cases (I can't think of any right now), might overtly support using such an image for a living person. Of course, if the image was used in a non-disparaging way, such as "PERSON won a Tony Award for his on-stage role of Satan in the new version of Faust" then there's not a BLP issue at all. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:47, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- Since I think of Satan as a made-up fantasy, I probably didn't adequately consider how some would look at it, and that's my fault. But look at this headline that greeted me today! Martin Shkreli: the worst person of 2015.--Milowent • hasspoken 13:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC)