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Originally, the lede only mentioned Europe and East Asia as areas with light-skinned people, as the native populations of these areas are firmly established as having light skin by a myriad of scientific articles. In recent months more and more people have been adding their own specific area that they care about the most to the lede, such as West, Central, and North Asia. This has lead to some people attempting to remove or minimize the regions that they have a personal bias against. In one case, a person created a Wikipedia account ( Rainbluetiful) specifically to remove or minimize one of the geographic areas with the largest body of quality sources (East Asia). If the lede is kept the way it used to be, it is likely that users motivated by a racial bias will continue to degrade the quality of this article.
The way that Dominic Mayers has written the lede is factually correct and neutral. It does not try to minimize or emphasize any particular area. Rainbluetiful has a particular insistence that East Asia be minimized while "West Asia", "Central Asia", "North Asia", and "Europe" remain the same, despite the fact that there is a huge body of research establishing that native populations of East Asia commonly have light skin, and light skin in West/Central Asia is not very common and does not have many sources to establish it. This is a clear cut violation of WP:NPOV and should not be allowed in this article.
In this article there are already images of various light-skinned people from around the world, which do a good job of showing a range of skin-tones which are considered "light" as measured by skin reflectance. Moving forward, it should be fine to allow those images to stay while keeping the verbal contents of the article free from racial bias. Biosaurt ( talk) 17:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Maybe best to leave it out. Probably too hard to resolve given how complex and vague the terms are, and probably not useful to try to describe the current geographic distribution. It might be more useful and more doable to describe native or historical distribution. North8000 ( talk) 20:23, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
those images are essentially illustrating the spectrophotometric data. I see no evidence that they were made in that context. Given the difficulty to find open source images, I can understand that we pick images that are not specifically connected to any scientific research, which means they might have been photoshopped, etc. and have no real scientific value. Again, I feel we can be flexible here. Dominic Mayers ( talk) 01:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Some folks are describing rules for images in wikipedia that do not exist. This is more of decision by normal editor decisionmaking processes. North8000 ( talk) 16:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
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Originally, the lede only mentioned Europe and East Asia as areas with light-skinned people, as the native populations of these areas are firmly established as having light skin by a myriad of scientific articles. In recent months more and more people have been adding their own specific area that they care about the most to the lede, such as West, Central, and North Asia. This has lead to some people attempting to remove or minimize the regions that they have a personal bias against. In one case, a person created a Wikipedia account ( Rainbluetiful) specifically to remove or minimize one of the geographic areas with the largest body of quality sources (East Asia). If the lede is kept the way it used to be, it is likely that users motivated by a racial bias will continue to degrade the quality of this article.
The way that Dominic Mayers has written the lede is factually correct and neutral. It does not try to minimize or emphasize any particular area. Rainbluetiful has a particular insistence that East Asia be minimized while "West Asia", "Central Asia", "North Asia", and "Europe" remain the same, despite the fact that there is a huge body of research establishing that native populations of East Asia commonly have light skin, and light skin in West/Central Asia is not very common and does not have many sources to establish it. This is a clear cut violation of WP:NPOV and should not be allowed in this article.
In this article there are already images of various light-skinned people from around the world, which do a good job of showing a range of skin-tones which are considered "light" as measured by skin reflectance. Moving forward, it should be fine to allow those images to stay while keeping the verbal contents of the article free from racial bias. Biosaurt ( talk) 17:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Maybe best to leave it out. Probably too hard to resolve given how complex and vague the terms are, and probably not useful to try to describe the current geographic distribution. It might be more useful and more doable to describe native or historical distribution. North8000 ( talk) 20:23, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
those images are essentially illustrating the spectrophotometric data. I see no evidence that they were made in that context. Given the difficulty to find open source images, I can understand that we pick images that are not specifically connected to any scientific research, which means they might have been photoshopped, etc. and have no real scientific value. Again, I feel we can be flexible here. Dominic Mayers ( talk) 01:14, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Some folks are describing rules for images in wikipedia that do not exist. This is more of decision by normal editor decisionmaking processes. North8000 ( talk) 16:40, 2 June 2024 (UTC)