Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2009-09-30/Human

Where is the dispute?
Change of the lead image on the Human page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human#Reconsidering_the_lead_image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rivertorch/Archive3#Human_image

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Human&diff=317505395&oldid=317485794

Who is involved?
KgKris

Silence

What is the dispute?
The original image from the Pioneer Plaque has been the image on the human wiki for years. There has been barely any consensus (3 weeks possibly) regarding the Akha image that replaced it. Plus based on the criteria Silence used for the replacement, any photo of a male and female human whose body is in full frame could be used as the lead image for the article. Therefore, using a photo of two Akha human's is unfairly bias to one race of humans, and does not need to replace the unbiased illustration on the Pioneer Plaque.

What would you like to change about this?
The discussion is no longer being taken seriously, all they did was accuse other editors of racism and post pictures of stick figures and Jimmy Wales. Congratulations Akha humans you have won the war of attrition.

How do you think we can help?
Please either restore the much less controversial Pioneer Plaque image or remove the lead image from Human altogether so that a single editor cannot force a bias photo in place of an image that has served it's purpose for multiple years.

Mediator notes
Holding off on this one, as User:KgKris is currently on a 2 week block. See Special:Contributions/KgKris. Netalarm  talk  01:19, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Closing case, as KgKris has stated on his talk page that he will not be returning to Wikipedia after his block expires. Netalarm   talk  22:29, 22 October 2009 (UTC)