Penisthwaite Options

[Versa]

Hello,

While looking for something else, I noticed that Ryan Postlethwaite is allowed to have an image of a "Human penis both flaccid and erect" on his user page but no one else allowed to.

See details at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list

File:Human penis both flaccid and erect.jpg except on Penis, User:Ryan Postlethwaite/Awards, User:Ryan Postlethwaite

Does anyone know how one would get permission for such a thing - not that I want one - does ArbCom or a steward have to O.K. it?

As far as I can tell it was WJBScribe who originally gave the explicit permission to Ryan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=200365817

[Somey]

While looking for something else, I noticed that Ryan Postlethwaite is allowed to have an image of a "Human penis both flaccid and erect" on his user page but no one else allowed to.

This is exactly what I've said about Wikipedia all along: Once you start requiring users to post photos of their penises on their user-profile pages, where does it end? How do you avoid creating a slippery slope? First you'll have people like Ryan Postlethwaite insisting on posting two penis photos, then it'll be three penis photos, then four... until finally there are so many penis photos on everyone's use page that the fundamental vision and purpose that led them to require the penis photos in the first place has been lost, the entire conceptual rationale in ruins, scattered to the four winds. And what about the tiny number of female users on Wikipedia - where are they going to get their penis photos? Will they accept photos of fake penises or dildos, or fanciful drawings, paintings or sculptures of same, in those cases? And what if some enterprising female Wikipedian decides to "push the envelope" by painting a picture of a giant penis and then claiming it's representative of her actual penis? Even though she isn't supposed to have one in the first place? This sort of downward-spiraling phallic-image one-upmanship can only lead to one terrible, inevitable result: Penis Wars!

Frankly, if I were Jimbo, I'd deal with this problem decisively, by cutting it off at the root. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/hrmph.gif)