On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's something we might do though. Addition of any image which violates
> anyone's privacy to any article can be suppressed on the English
> Wikipedia. Using this policy: "Removal of non-public personal
> information, such as phone numbers, home addresses, workplaces or
> identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have not made
> their identity public. This includes hiding the IP data of editors who
> accidentally logged out and thus inadvertently revealed their own IP
> addresses. Suppression is a tool of first resort in removing this
> information."
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
>
> That would not resolve the situation on Commons, but would render the
> image useless and superfluous.

Frankly, I'd consider that an abusive misinterpretation of the rules you cite.

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
     --  Desiderius Erasmus

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