User talk:Jotsingh

Re Reg: Title Image updation of article "Harmandir Sahib"
Hi Jotsingh,

Just for the record I have no connection with the picture in question (creation, uploading, etc) - I merely nominated it for Featured pictures a couple of years back when someone else raised it as a suggestion at Picture peer review, and shifted it from a gallery into the article proper. I also have no connection with the Harmandir Sahib article beyond this.

I also know little to nothing about the Sikh religion, certainly not enough to know whether a (as you call it) half naked man would be offensive, but with the little I know I would not have thought so.

Nonetheless I must disagree with your sentiments that the "image stayed there for long because most of the people who visit Wikipedia are not familiar with editing features". Harmandir Sahib has been edited some five hundred times since this picture first went into the gallery here, and almost as many times since I moved it into the article proper here - I don't know when it actually went into the taxobox; as I said above I have nothing to do with the article.

Additionally this picture is a Featured Picture on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, as well as Irish and Turkish Wikipedias. It won Commons Picture of the Year for 2009. It is used on several articles on Wikipedia, including Sikhism. It is used on dozens of other language Wikipedias and related projects - see this list. It is clearly approved of by WikiProject India.

Based on all the above, it would appear that others don't agree with your reservations with the image; the image is not in all these places by accident, and is not remaining there just because people don't know how to move or remove it. Please remember that Wikipedia is not censored. If you disagree with it's usage, the first place to start is with the article's talkpage Talk:Harmandir Sahib, or alternatively you could raise it at Wikiproject India's noticeboard.

Regards, --jjron (talk) 12:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)