Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Possibly offensive images


 * 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 Image censorship and Graphic and potentially disturbing images. Suffice it to say, image tagging per "offensiveness" will not become policy anytime soon. Oh, and quite POV. T IMBO  ( T A L K )  05:17, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * comment: See also Templates for deletion


 * Keep if the attached template is kept, delete if it is deleted. The template issue should be resolved before the category issue. &mdash;Ashley Y 05:27, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)
 * Delete. inherently POV. Evil Monkey&#8756;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? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 09:23, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm with the POV-ness comments. &mdash; 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)