On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:32 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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