2009/1/9 Cary Bass <[email protected]>: > After receiving a complaint in the office about our retaining an image on an > article which was causing great distress to the living survivors of the > depicted individuals, I noticed the relavent discussion at > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Three_Dead > _Navy_SEALs_in_Operation_Redwing.PNG>. I'm rather shocked and surprised > that our contributors can so callously treat the feelings of living > individuals just so that we can upload "free" photographs of dead people; > pictures which are certainly not necessary to our projects. > > This is not the same thing as censorship...this involves close personal > connections between living and dead people. > > We regularly delete photographs of individuals based on personality rights; > not because we're afraid of being sued but because it's the right thing to > do. The insistence that we undelete these photos simply because they're > free and that they're not against policy, without any consideration of the > living survivors casts a rather dim shadow on our underlying efforts, that > of sharing knowledge. > > I sincerely hope some individuals with sympathetic concerns weigh in on the > discussion. > > (My comment at > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3ADeletion_requests% > 2FFile%3AThree_Dead_Navy_SEALs_in_Operation_Redwing.PNG&diff=17521626&oldid= > 17519286>, for reference). > > Cary Bass > [[User:Bastique]]
Not going to happen. We have a fair number of photos that would probably upset people including close family members. We have a lot of content that would upset people full stop. Throw in the general fear of what could follow if we compromise on this and that rather a lot of wikipedians don't exactly function socially in a conventional manner and you are unlikely to make much progress. Now me I would argue it on copyright grounds since historical practice is to ignore the afghan anomaly since at some point they will sort out a copyright system and deleting a lot of stuff as a result is likely to be time consuming. -- geni _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
