Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-30/Traffic report
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)