Talk:Your Kink or Mine

Okay, so what is the policy for full-frontal nudity? The post-it note isn't mine so the choice has been made for me this time. But if I had access to the cover with the dangly bits displayed, could I have used it? I have a K/S one with a stategically displayed little piece of paper, too. Mrs. Potato Head 13:12, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I swear I've seen this discussed somewhere, but I don't know how it's been decided. *rummages around* Aha, that is because it has not been decided yet. It is listed under Fanlore:Issues on the issues page here:http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:Issues with "Need a policy for explicit content - uploaded images, text, strong language and so forth. Status: Not yet discussed by Wikimittee, feelers sent out to other OTW projects with similar issues." So as of yet there are no rules.--Ratcreature 18:28, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the rummaging. Again, not a decision I had to make this time, but curious about it for the future. Personally, I'm all about full disclosure, as it were, but can see the sensitive nature of this. Maybe that blurry thing for the good stuff? Or a smiley face? Mrs. Potato Head 21:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Personally I don't really care one way or another as long as it is just nudity, which may be a problem for the "worksafe" status of the wiki, but at least isn't particularly upsetting, but explicit pictures can be all sorts of things after all. I mean, I don't have much experience with zine covers, but I've seen fanart that was gory, and upsetting with violence and non-con and such, also with really young characters (which on top of everything else may have legal problems for visitors to see and have on their computers, even if it is drawn rather than photos, depending on where they live). Anyway, IMO there should be some image policy ensuring that you don't come across shocking images without some warning or an extra click, even if the image fit the topic of the article, like I wouldn't want to see mutilated bodies to illustrate torture fic, or violent sexual fanart to illustrate the rapefic article, etc. because I wouldn't necessarily expect pictures, even if I intentionally go to that kind of page.--Ratcreature 22:00, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

And my brain didn't even go to anything but plain old explicit boring nudity! I suppose the image on this cover pushes the other things (me, it just makes me *cough* laugh); the grin on the character's faces' helps. I do agree there shouldn't be anything that one wouldn't consider "work-safe" that one could happen upon without a warning. Language doesn't alarm me too much as one would know enough to stay away from a zine called, say, Fucking Fuck, but it's quite another thing to click into zine, say, called, Lovin' Sheep and seeing the illustrations. Like you said, the covers of zines don't seem to be too much of an issue, but for other things it may be a bigger issue. Mrs. Potato Head 23:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)