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A scandal erupted on the website of ''[[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]'', the online encyclopedia that anyone can
edit, after it was discovered that a [[w:Compact disc|CD]] cover with an image of a nude underage girl
was uploaded to the site. As a result of recent media coverage surrounding the incident, the [[w:FBI|FBI]]
will be stepping in to investigate ''Wikipedia'' for possibly violating [[United States]] federal pornography
laws.

The cover is from a 1976 album of the ''Scorpions'' titled 'Virgin Killer' and has the image of an underage
girl, posing nude, with an crack crossing over her [[w:Vagina|genitals]], but nothing blocking out her
breasts. The girl appears to be around 10-years-old. The U.S. banned that cover, and the band later
replaced the image with one of the group. The cover was uploaded in 2006, but ''[[w:Wikinews|
Wikinews]]'' has learned, that on May 9, (21:17 UTC) despite a result of 43 to 12 in favor of 'keep' on a
deletion request, the image was deleted from ''Wikipedia'' by an administrator known as
''[[w:User:Angusmclellan|Angusmclellan]]''. The administrator states that the image was deleted because
"outside pressure should never influence us, not to do what the pressure group want, nor to do the
opposite just to spite them. We should base our decisions on Wikipedia's policies and values. Those
policies and values say that we should only use non-free content under stringent conditions. This image
didn't and doesn't meet those conditions and should be deleted. If it does meet them in the future it should
be undeleted."

"Children use ''Wikipedia'' all of the time for reports for school, and this stuff is not just pornography, this is
hard-core pornography. Much of it may even be in violation of our nation's obscenity laws," said
Concerned Women for America's policy director for cultural issues and attorney, Matt Barber.

According to a report by ''WorldNetDaily'', Deputy Director of the ''[[w:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia

Foundation]]'', [[w:Erik Möller|Erik Möller]], endorsed child pornography and even alleged that Möller was
posting it on his website ''humanist.de''. The image, since deleted, depicted two children, one male and
one female, who appear to be much younger than 18, naked with the female giving the male a
'[[w:handjob|handjob]]'. The image can be seen in a cache of ''[[w:Google|Google]]'', and is clearly marked
as having been posted to Möller's website.

"If there was any doubt, yes, I am defending that children can have sex with each other. Not only
adolescents, but also children of earlier ages -- whenever they want to," stated Möller in 2001, although
denies that he supports pedophilia saying "I have pondered putting a disclaimer into the article ("I am not
a pedophile. I am a 22-y-o heterosexual white male") but I see no reason to give this concession to the
child sex hysteria."

''[[w:Wikinews|Wikinews]]'' has contacted Möller regarding the allegations, but has not yet received a
response.

Child pornography is not the only concern, but also images depicting what some could label as 'hardcore
pornography'. Several articles on ''Wikipedia'', such as [[w:Autofellatio|Autofellatio]], which is self oral
stimulation of the [[w:penis|penis]], and shows an image of a male applying oral sex to himself. The article
[[w:fluffing|fluffer]], which is when a member of the crew who is filming a pornographic film is to sexually
arouse the individuals performing in the movie, and shows an image of two males having [[w:anal sex|
anal sex]], while a cameraman hands them a towel.

''Wikipedia'' is not the only project to host questionable material. ''Wikimedia's'' 'Commons', a wiki
dedicated to hosting images that could potentially be used on other projects, also has a variety of nudity
and sexually explicit material. On the category of [[commons:Category:Striptease|Striptease]], dozens of
photographs show females in total nudity on the front page, with some photos having several females
posing nude. Through our investigation, ''Wikinews''has learned that most of the images are not used in
articles on ''Wikipedia'', but are used only on user pages.

Commons policy on what images are considered to be within the "projects scope" states that "files
uploaded to the Commons have to be useful for some Wikimedia project. Media files that are not useful
for any Wikimedia project are beyond the scope of Wikimedia Commons." This includes, but is not limited
to "private image collections and the like. Wikimedia Commons is not a web host for e.g. private party
photos, self-created artwork without educational purpose and such."

This raises the question as to whether or not ''Wikimedia'' should ask for age verification when looking at
material which contains sexually explicit material. ''Wikinews'' spoke to ... who stated ....

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== Sources ==
*{{source|
url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/2008_May_8#Image:Virgin_Kil
ler.jpg
|title=Deletion Request: Image: 'Virgin killer'
|author=
|pub=Wikipedia
|date=May 9, 2008}}
*{{source|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Virgin_Killer.jpg
|title='Virgin Killer' deletion log
|author=
|pub=Wikipedia
|date=May 9, 2008}} (Current as of 21:39 UTC; May 9, 2008)
*{{source|url=http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63722
|title=FBI investigates 'Wikipedophilia'
|author=Chelsea Schilling
|pub=WorldNetDaily
|date=May 7, 2008}}
*{{source|url=http://valleywag.com/372140/erik-mller-no-2-at-wikipedia-a-defender-of-pedophilia
|title=Erik Möller, No. 2 at Wikipedia, a defender of pedophilia
|author=Owen Thomas
|pub=ValleyWog
|date=May 5, 2008}}
*{{source|url=http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2001/3/30/4410/84525/72#72
|title=Pleasure, Affection, Cause and Effect
|author=Erik Möller
|pub=Kuro5hin
|date=March 31, 2001}}
*{{source|url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Scope
|title=Commons:Project scope
|author=
|pub=Wikimedia Commons
|date=N/A}} (Current as of May 9, 2008)

==External links==
*[http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=Kinderspiele%20oder%20Kindesmi
%C3%9Fbrauch%3F%20Das%20Foto%20aus%20Amendts%20%22Sex%20Buch%22%20ist
%20zwanzig%20Jahre%20alt&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi Google cache of suspect
image posted to Möller's website].