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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_Killer.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].