02 Apr

Commons:Requests for comment/scope

New section: - ‎Political satire and propaganda
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We can perhaps work out who our users are and what if anything we are doing right, and perhaps if there is any chance that our hypothetical user exists.--[[User:KTo288|KTo288]] ([[User talk:KTo288|talk]]) 01:11, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

We can perhaps work out who our users are and what if anything we are doing right, and perhaps if there is any chance that our hypothetical user exists.--[[User:KTo288|KTo288]] ([[User talk:KTo288|talk]]) 01:11, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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==Political satire and propaganda==

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The original motivation for this RFC deals with political satire. I believe political satire and propaganda is in scope, as propaganda is by definition "educational". Commons is not Wikipedia, we cannot decide what and how people should be taught to think. Neither does Commons have a [[:en:WP:NPOV|WP:NPOV]] policy.

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Take as an example [http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/georgia-russia.html this collection] of cartoons on the [[:Category:South Ossetia war, 2008|2008 South Ossetia war]]. Is there any cartoon there we would not gladly host if we had the (copy)right to? Then ask this second question: Would the Wikipedia community ever reach a consensus, that including any one them in the [[:en:Russia–Georgia war|Wikipedia article]] on the conflict would be in line with WP:NPOV? (likely not.)

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Political satire is always propaganda. A cartoon that was not biased just would not have the punch line. -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 08:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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