Talk:Wet T-shirt contest

message: I removed the word 'rowdy' from the 'Inflight compeition' section. The word is subjective, judgemental and undoubtly un-encyclopedic. -Roswell Crash Survivor 10:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inflight competition edit 

message: OMG I AM OUTRAGED! How can you have that horribly inappropriate picture in this article!?!?!?!         ....   That's a wet tank top, not a t-shirt!!!
::lol, loved your irony! Mathmo 09:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's debatable on whether it should be a t-shirt or not. It is still an article of clothing that, when splashed by water, becomes transparent and is often worn by women who participate in those types of contests. TheMonkofDestiny 02:30, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good image, but I agree: it definitely surprised and slightly annoyed me to see a tank top as the only illustration here. Sure, I highly doubt any wet t-shirt contest would reject this, but the image should be an illustration of the typical contest, not a slightly unusual exception to what the article describes; it should make it clear why the contest is named "wet t-shirt contest" rather than "wet article of clothing that, when splashed by water, becomes transparent contest". I propose that we upload several dozen more images of this nature and pick the best one to use in this article, after I've saved them all to my hard drive. Who's with me? -Silence 06:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Common misconceptions?--Radh (talk) 06:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tank top vs. T-shirt 

message: The article states: "However because of recent laws they may not reveal their full breasts or be fully nude." There is no citation, and my own search has not discovered any verification of this. Local laws usually determine nudity issues. However, many of the most explicit contests originated in Key West FL, during spring break periods. Many of these contests have been videotaped and marketed on the internet. I have noticed since 2004, newer videos have not been available. I am curious if new laws have been passed in Key West prohibiting nudity in these contests.
Eelb53 (talk) 05:24, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change in Laws? 

message: I went thru Google news archives and found an early article from The Milwaukee Sentinel - Sep 16, 1976 by Ron Lego titled Arrests Put a Damper On Wet T-Shirt Contest. This is the earliest one I could find. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 22:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've included it in the article. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 17:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early reference to Wet T-shirt contest  

message: Should the inappropriate pictures be deleted? It's completely unnecessary (not even educational) and only makes wikipedia not friendly for everybody. --Helpfulwikieditoryay (talk) 02:52, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , Wikipedia is not friendly for everybody. As an encyclopaedia it covers topics which may be inappropriate for some readers. We do not censor ourselves to appease people - we show images which are appropriate to the article. If you go to an article about a flower, expect to see pictures of flowers; if you go to this article, expect to see photos of wet t-shirt contests. Now, images should not be there for decoration, but to enhance understanding. I have changed the first photo to one which actually shows a contest rather than just a person having water poured over them, but unfortunately the choice of images we have on this subject is not great. -mattbuck (Talk) 08:46, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appropriateness of images 2020