Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Pornopedia/2010-May porn purge
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- Wikipedia purges porn Fox news 7 May
- Wikimedia dumps porn following FoxNews probe Silicon Republic 10 May
- Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights BBC 10 May
- Wikipedia-porn-row-sees-founder-give-up-his-editing-privileges Daily Telegraph 11 May
- Wikipedia roiled by porn row The Inquirer 11 May
Wales' purge
Restored material
Material that was always there
Debates on the Commons and Meta-wiki
Wikipedia culture
Evidence that the political culture of Wikipedia is deeply hostile to getting rid of porn.
- Rosenzweig, fatuous comment on Wales' talk page
- David Gerard "These vicious morons"
- Wales' talk page at commons
- Wales' talk page at en:Wkipedia
- Pro-pedo POV pushers
- pro-bestiality POV pushers
- Sexualised images of children and the Wikipedia mascot
- Paid shills for the porn industry
- Pedophiles can be productive editors
- "The censorship of centuries-old art is a very frightening event" a Wikipedia editor speaks to the press.
- Pedophiles are welcome
- Hand wringing over whether they should be welcome
- Should 6 year olds be allowed to edit?
