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)


 * 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)
 * 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)