<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 October 2011 08:42, Nathan Eady <<a href="mailto:eady@galion.lib.oh.us">eady@galion.lib.oh.us</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">chovynz <<a href="mailto:chovynz@gmail.com">chovynz@gmail.com</a>> writes: > What is OCAL's policies regarding swearing as titles on clipart? </div>If such a policy has been developed so far, I am not aware of it. (That doesn't mean we don't _need_ such a policy. I'm just not sure it's come up before.) </blockquote><div>I think it has not come up before. I personally do not mind the titles, I'm a big guy, I can ignore stuff like that, however my Librarian side is saying this is not the appropriate venue to be saying such stuff. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> At minimum, anything with really nasty language in it needs to be consistently tagged with a keyword (probably "profanity" or somesuch) so people can easily filter them out. The words "bigot" probably doesn't qualify as profanity, and "filthy" certainly does not, but I saw at least one that does. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> There are also some (such as the aforementioned "bigot") that should probably also have a keyword indicating that they are directed ad hominem. It's tempting to use the word "slander" as the keyword for that, even though these titles are not slander (or libel for that matter) in the technical legal sense, because it would probably communicate better (to most folks) than "adhominem". Thoughts? </blockquote><div> So adding tags is a good idea, (bigot would be tagged "slander"?). Do we really need tags such as "f***ing?" I'm inclined to remove those all-together. But then the question becomes "Do we change the tags and titles?" I am a little uncomfortable with that idea (changing someone else's tags or titles) as it smells of censorship to me, and I don't like that. However, I am also trying to be mindful of the other users of this library. "Bigot" is this one person's opinion, and I feel that opinions don't really have a place on OCAL - in titles, tags or descriptions. "F***ing" (as used in the sense it is being used) is just derogatory, and we do have a "don't use judgemental words as tags, ON the upload page. I am leaning towards tagging it cleanup, and asking him to remove the F and opinionated tags/titles. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm assuming here that the people being insulted are public figures (ones I've never heard of, but that's not unusual since I don't watch television) and that it thus qualifies as some kind of (inept and markedly juvenile) social commentary. If it's the artist's own personal acquaintances being insulted, I'd be in favor of hiding them, on the grounds that OCAL is not the proper venue for that. </blockquote><div>I believe they are ministers of countries that this person, personally does not like. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm also assuming that the images themselves are original material. If they're existing OCAL images with new titles as the only contribution, they're redundant and should be marked as duplicates and hidden. </blockquote><div>They seem to be original. Scans of public images probably or drawn with a good eye. (I am making good faith assumptions there.) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Nathan Eady Galion Public Library _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> </blockquote></div>