I'm not sure why you actually bother, to be honest. I'd just host all the disputed images on the Hebrew Wikipedia and avoid Commons altogether. The sea lawyer bullshit on regular projects is bad enough; on Commons its an art form. Seriously -- why bother?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Yann Forget <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and > threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of > famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense > Forces. > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_were_deleted_by_User:Fastily_that_I_am_aware_of_them > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Beba_Idelson_Ada_Maimon1952.jpg > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Abba_Hushi_1956.jpg > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aharon_Meskin_-_Ben_Gurion_-_Israel_Prize1960.jpg > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Avraham_Shlonsky_1952.jpg > > These are famous and valuable pictures, including two featured > pictures on the Hebrew Wikipedia. These files have already been > deleted and restored 3 times. When the URAA issue was not convincing > enough, a new reson for deletion was advanced: that publication > details were not given. Anyone with 2 bits of common sense can > understand that these famous pictures were published soon after they > were taken. There is no reasonable doubt about that. In addition, > publication is not a requirement for being in the public domain in > Israel. > > After I restored these images, I was threatem by LGA, who is a > delete-only account: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:Yann > There, more contributors argue on this issue. > > By asking absurb requirements about publication details, these > contributors threaten the project as a whole. If insisting, it will > lead people to upload pictures like these locally instead of Commons. > Then the idea of a central repository for all Wikimedia projects is > gone. > > Instead of looking for a reason to destroy these files, they should > try to find a reason to keep them. > > Regards, > > Yann > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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