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Lets take a category of Penis images as an example. Load it up.
Hundreds of penii. Pretty shocking. We can obviously cut back on this,
right? How many penis images do we really need to meet the mission of
the Wikipedias? (and then we need to consider the more expansive
mission of commons in educating through media).
Well, we ought to have circumcised, and uncircumcised. Flaccid and
erect. An example of each kind of penis jewellery that has a WP
article in some language. An example of every disease with
penis-visible symptoms.... We're easily at 50-100 images already.
People seem to think we also need many of the prior samples from
multiple races to demonstrate the (lack of) differences. Add a little
further inflation because editorial preferences on the Wikipedias will
differ.
So on the basis of meeting the Wikipedia's need alone, we're up to
hundreds of pictures of penises. Now— commons' hundreds are not so
diverse, we need fewer of some kinds and more of others, but in terms
of the sheer count even before considering commons' own educational
remit we still need a bunch.
Where does this place us in terms of our problem statements? Well,
With hundreds of pictures in the category it will be easy to cast
commons as a penis palace. Thus, in terms of this class of images—
problem (1) is probably unsolvable given our educational mission. If
someone wants to point to the category and inspire the "Oh my god;
it's full of cocks" response, they can...
