Re : Masti - I agree with your position that if the license seems suspect, and the contributor can't (or won't) provide something a bit more, then the image should be deleted - that's not the consensus on commons however, for what that's worth - these doubts have been raised, and the image remains. The general thinking seems to be that the burden of proof lies with those suspicious of the original license - I think this is a bit silly. Also - re : quoting - I'm afraid I'm a 'gmailer' who only hits 'reply' to post again - though I'm semi-aware that this does something wrong in regard to quoting, I'm not sure what, nor how to fix it - my apologies.
Re : Pedro - heh... I take your point - doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about the merits of the point at hand, though, no? If there's an improvement to be made, that's gonna be a good thing regardless of the opinion that it's also important, I reckon.... cheers, Peter PM. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Pedro Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, private musings <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > I believe that this is an example of principle overriding pragmatism in a > > way that has great potential to cause the project harm - both in > reputation > > and utility. If you're reading this and are a bit confuddled about the > > parameters of discussion in this area - here are some handy bullet > points; > > > > > I recall hearing this very argument several years ago when wikipedia was > some orders of magnitude smaller > of course the empiric evidence shows otherwise, wikipedia grew beyond > anyone's predictions > in spite the "if you don't do X, things we downhill", "ikipedia will lose > all reputatin", "wikipedia will be harmed", "wikipedia will become useless" > where X ranges could e "censor nudity", "change the sysop election system" > or "stop anon edits", "delete pokemon" or whatever the > unsourmountable-obstacle-of-the-week is. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
