蝎子乐队于1976年发行了专辑《处女杀手》,专辑封面当时被认为有争议[1],其内容是一位全裸的少女,仅用玻璃破碎的效果来档住生殖器部位[5]。唱片在部分地区发行时将封面换成了乐队成员的照片,如RCA公司就拒绝在美国销售使用存在争议图片为封面的唱片[11]。不过,这并非蝎子乐队唱片封面首次引起争议,之前的专辑《Taken by Force》[12]和《Lovedrive》[1]也曾有过类似的情况。
网络观察基金会表示,他们最早是在2008年12月4日接到相关维基百科页面网址的通报。而在之前的2008年5月,一个总部设在美国的社会保守派网站“WorldNetDaily”也向美国联邦调查局报告了维基百科上的这张封面图片。一个名为“忧虑的美国女性”(Concerned Women for America)的保守基督教宣传组织官员表示,“让那样的图片继续张贴,维基百科是在帮助进一步促成性變態和恋童癖”[18][19]。《电子内容》(EContent)杂志在随后的报道中声称,维基百科上该条目的讨论页“之前的讨论已经达成广泛共识,决定不会删除《处女杀手》的封面”,报道中还断言,维基百科的贡献者们“除了最极端的案例以外赞成包容所有的内容”[20]。但据《卫报》报道,因为“网络观察基金会没有与英国以外的人们交流,所以他们无法体会到到底发生了什么事。”互联网安全专家理查德·克莱顿(Richard Clayton)解释道,“我们经常会看到这种打擦边球的事儿,谁也得不到好处”,他认为基金会的这个决定有些太断章取义,特别是在“因为你可以走进大街上的一家HMV直接买一张”唱片的情况下[21]。2008年12月9日,网络观察基金会将相关的维基百科页面移出了黑名单,其原因是“这个特定案例的背景问题,而且这张图片已经长时间存在并且很容易找到”[10]。
^Investigation by several UK based Wikipedians revealed that the page/image was still available using direct addressing URL parameters, or by using the Wikipedia secure server, as detailed in an internal discussion(網頁存檔) of the issue at the Administrator's Noticeboard at the time
^Jennifer LeClaire. UK Agency Blocks Wikipedia Image, Editing of Site. Yahoo News. 2008-12-08<!- – 4:48 pm ET --> [2013-06-05]. (原始内容存档于2016-03-04). On its Web site, Wikipedia said several large ISPs that cooperate with the IWF subsequently blocked the image, affecting an estimated 95 percent of residential Internet users in the UK ... ". Due to the way the block was created (via transparent proxies), users from the affected ISPs now share a small number of IP addresses. This means that a user committing vandalism cannot be distinguished from all the other people on the same ISP," Wikipedia said ... ". Unfortunately, the effect of this is that all users from the affected ISPs are temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia. Simply viewing the site is not affected, aside from the blocked article and image."请检查|date=中的日期值 (帮助)
^Raphael G. Satter. Wikipedia article blocked in UK over child photo. The Independent (UK). 2008-12-08 [2013-06-05]. (原始内容存档于2012-10-25). "It appears that there's a large number of editors — I can't say all — who appear to have access issues," [Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation] said. [Sarah Robertson, Internet Watch Foundation] said she could not explain reports that other parts of the site were difficult to navigate as a result of the block. "There shouldn't have been any collateral damage," she said.
^Arthur, Charles. Internet Watch Foundation reconsiders Wikipedia censorship. The Guardian (UK). 2008-12-09 [2013-06-05]. (原始内容存档于2012-11-14).: "However Amazon US no longer risks being blocked under IWF's rulings. The image, as an album cover, had been on its site earlier this week, but has now been removed, apparently on the site's own initiative."
^Appendix to the LOPPSI bill(PDF) (PDF). assemblee-nationale.fr: 190. 2009-05-27 [2013-06-05]. (原始内容存档(PDF)于2012-09-17).