Forum:SH:Aayla Secura and Wikia's TOU

Hi all. I'm here to talk about something that's likely to be controversial. As you may know, we’ve recently been reviewing images that have been uploaded to Wikia, due to repeated ToU violations. Instead of deleting problem images when we get complaints about them, we have started to actively look for and remove them across Wikia. Wookieepedia hasn't been impacted by this so far of course, almost all of your images are non-explicit and your admins do a great job of removing any vandalism.

However, there is one image of Aayla Secura that shows her fully naked. I'm aware that this is an image that's been discussed by the community and that the consensus is to keep it. It's very hard to go against that consensus, but the image is also outside our Terms of Use and needs to be removed.

To be more specific, the Terms of Use state that content must not be "obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive [or] profane". Obviously, that is open to a lot of interpretation. But the line we have drawn is that we don't allow shock images, images of sexual acts, or images of nudity. And that includes the Aayla image.

I see that the Breast article has several alternative images. Perhaps one of those can be moved in to the top image spot. The alternative is to use censorship bars or pixelation on the image, but I think that would take the page further away from its intent than an alternative example.

I'm sorry to have to ask for this image's removal and hope you understand the need in this very unusual case.. -- sannse http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog)  19:05, October 9, 2012 (UTC)