User blog:Sannse/Image Review on Wikia

Hi,

I'm part of Wikia's staff team. As you may know, we’ve recently been reviewing images that have been uploaded to Wikia, due to repeated ToU violations. Instead of deleting problem images when we get complaints about them, we have started to actively look for and remove them across Wikia.

I'm letting you know about this because of the images in Category:The Witcher images — Sex cards. Several of those are outside our Terms of Use and need to be removed.

To be more specific, the Terms of Use state that content must not be "obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive [or] profane". Obviously, that is open to a lot of interpretation. But the line we have drawn is that we don't allow shock images, images of sexual acts, or images of nudity - which includes the images of bare breasts and buttocks in the cards.

I realize that the point of having these cards on the wiki is to have a full record of the topic, and to contrast the censored and non-censored versions. But I'm afraid the non-censored versions will need to be removed or adjusted somehow to be able to stay on Wikia. For example, you could pixellate or use censorship bars, or crop the images to show just the "family friendly" part of the images (I realize this franchise has adult themes, but that doesn't change our requirements for images)

I'm happy to answer any questions, or talk about the best way to bring the images within the Terms of Use... please let me know if I can help.

-- sannse http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog)  19:36, October 30, 2012 (UTC)