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I'm concerned by the gratuitous number of photos of lynchings interspersed throughout this article. Compare with Cambodian genocide, Atrocities in the Congo Free State and The Holocaust, which include comparable images, but:
1. each adds new information and/or documents a significant event—clearly captioned and in context
2. images of dead bodies & other highly graphic content is kept below the fold
4. max 4-5 such images, at most ~40% of total images in the article
This article has no fewer than 18 startling photographs of lynchings/lynching victims, with two above the fold. Little or no new info is added by each photo and most are captioned with (at most) the victim's name. Of the ~15 so other images in the article, 10 are photos of other violence or illustrations of lynchings.
This is a trauma porn gallery. For relevant issues, see:
https://zora.medium.com/the-problems-with-black-suffering-on-screen-7ff6e68e1c97
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1920775
I'd like to remove most of the lynching photos and provide better context around the ones that remain, and use a different picture above the fold, aligning the article with wikipedia norms standards. Wanted to raise it here first given the significance of the change & sensitivity. Dpj aok ( talk) 12:57, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 30 April 2024. Further details are available
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— Assignment last updated by Asudman ( talk) 00:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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I'm concerned by the gratuitous number of photos of lynchings interspersed throughout this article. Compare with Cambodian genocide, Atrocities in the Congo Free State and The Holocaust, which include comparable images, but:
1. each adds new information and/or documents a significant event—clearly captioned and in context
2. images of dead bodies & other highly graphic content is kept below the fold
4. max 4-5 such images, at most ~40% of total images in the article
This article has no fewer than 18 startling photographs of lynchings/lynching victims, with two above the fold. Little or no new info is added by each photo and most are captioned with (at most) the victim's name. Of the ~15 so other images in the article, 10 are photos of other violence or illustrations of lynchings.
This is a trauma porn gallery. For relevant issues, see:
https://zora.medium.com/the-problems-with-black-suffering-on-screen-7ff6e68e1c97
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1920775
I'd like to remove most of the lynching photos and provide better context around the ones that remain, and use a different picture above the fold, aligning the article with wikipedia norms standards. Wanted to raise it here first given the significance of the change & sensitivity. Dpj aok ( talk) 12:57, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 30 April 2024. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
Asudman (
article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Asudman ( talk) 00:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)