Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Possibly offensive images

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• Category:Possibly offensive images listed for deletion on February 1, 2005. Consensus was to delete. The associated template was previously deleted.

This category is bound to stir up edit wars/controversy because of the frustratingly nebulous "offensive" epithet. What use the category has is beyond me, other than legitimating someone's offense at an image. A number of policy proposals are under discussion, such as Wikipedia:Image censorship and Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images. Suffice it to say, image tagging per "offensiveness" will not become policy anytime soon. Oh, and quite POV. TIMBO (T A L K) 05:17, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

comment: See also Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Offensiveimage

• Keep if the attached template is kept, delete if it is deleted. The template issue should be resolved before the category issue. —Ashley Y 05:27, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)
• Delete. inherently POV. Evil Monkey∴Hello? 06:54, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm offended at this category. Philistine, anti-intellectual, and inherently POV. Postdlf 07:08, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Oppose all censorship. RickK 07:10, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, or if not that then find some way to include all images in this category without exception. It's POV otherwise. Bryan 08:18, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. We have no consensus on tagging of offensive or possibly offensive images, and this is just another invitation to POV pushers to edit war. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 09:19, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. All images are likely to be offensive to someone. What are we going to do, set up a committee to decide which images are OK and which ones aren't? Grutness|^hello? 09:23, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm with the POV-ness comments. — OwenBlacker 12:45, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for inherent bias. Tuf-Kat 22:13, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete until/unless there's some actual policy involved here. Gamaliel 22:48, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this is not the way to solve the offensive-to-some-people images problem. --fvw* 01:00, 2005 Feb 2 (UTC)
• 'Delete. Information doesn't want to be filtered. Isn't a major technique of indoctrination the protection from information? --Wetman 08:34, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Ignorance is strength, as the man on the screen in my flat says. Postdlf 01:55, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Good Lord. -- RyanFreisling @ 01:20, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - We should have any categories that start "Possibly." -Willmcw 03:50, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)