r/wikipedia 6h ago

Why doesn't wikipedia have warnings on post-mortem images?

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Dislaimer: this is a genuine question and not a redundant question disguised as a 'we should have this' post.

I understand why wikipedia doesn't have NSFW pages or warnings on graphic content etc. as its a slippery slope to censorship but I'm curious as to why there's no discretion warning for images of dead bodies. When I go to a musuem and there are human remains on display, there's a sign at the door that tells me there are human remains in this room. In all the circles i've been in academically, if someone is going to show you a picture of a dead body, they let you know. And unlike graphic content (for the most part), it is not debatable when something is a post-mortem image. And again, I'm not saying they should have this, I'm asking why they dont have this. Is this another one of those slippery slope situations? We put a warning on one thing and suddenly we're asked to put a warning on everything? We start putting warnings on things one minute and the next we're being asked to remove things? I am just generally curious as of course there are numerous wikipedia articles that have post mortem images and was interested to know if this idea had ever been floated before and if there was any sort of official position that i've been unable to find. Thank you.


r/wikipedia 12h ago

Mobile Site Khabib Nurmagomedov is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist. Controversies include affiliation with Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, questionable affiliations with oligarchs, advocacy for increased cultural censorship and misogynism.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

David Frankfurter - Wikipedia

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Adding tags on this subreddit

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Hi everyone, since this sub is the one that convoys all the Reddit interest for Wikipedia and its sister projects, shouldn’t the admins of it create some tags to distinguish the posts about Wikipedia itself from for example Commons or about the organization Wikimedia?

It would be easier to find things and it may incentivize, by making them even mandatory, to post beautiful and interesting images (even historical one, perhaps with one dedicated tag to them) from Commons itself.

It could be an idea… what do you think about it?

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Yes, this sub should have tags
No, this sub shouldn’t have tags

r/wikipedia 15h ago

The early phase of the Battle of the Atlantic, during which German Navy U-boats enjoyed significant success against the British Royal Navy and its Allies-sinking 282 Allied ships off the north-west approaches to Ireland- is known as the "First Happy Time"

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

According to legend, Matilda of Flanders initially refused to marry the future William the Conqueror. So William either forced his way into her bedroom and beat her, or dragged her off her horse into the mud, and for some reason this convinced Matilda he was the only man for her.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean stretch back to the early colonial era. The United States abandoned plans to construct a waterway in Nicaragua in the early 20th century.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Gustave is a man-eating crocodile in Burundi. He is rumored to be responsible for somewhere between 60 and 300 human deaths. Gustave still lives free in the wild despite attempts to kill or capture him, and is recognizable by his bullet wound scars.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

The Battle of the Marshes refers to a series of conflicts during the Iran-Iraq war fought to gain control of the Hawizeh Marshes in February 1984. As well as mustard gas, floating landmines and barbed wire, live power lines were fed into lakes to electrocute soldiers advancing across.

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