Having to delete things will be an ongoing problem because adding things
is quite easy to do, so inevitably stuff that is not suitable will
always be present and eventually put up for deletion. The old
deletionist vs inclusionist and open vs restricted access arguments some
into play.
Alan
The problem is not just one of fair user images. A lot of the problem (at
least when I dealt with it in the past) was about freely licensed images
that were deemed unfit for commons because of things like trademarks, right
of panorama, privacy rights of individuals, etc. English-language
Suggested Fix 3, this is a problem of deletionism, and the best way to deal
with delietionism is to stop deleting things and seek alternate solutions.
In this case Commons deletion discussions need a return to source Wiki
option as opposed to deletion of files migrated from other wikis. And those
I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a
moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change. I posit that this
is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so
am including Wikitech-L.
Most of us are probably familiar with the cycle:
On 5 August 2013 08:36, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
These are not the only two possible solutions, but they come to mind
immediately (and have previously when I thought of this). Additional fix
concepts solicited and welcomed.
Do you want to apply that to all millionish of our local media files, or do you
want me to?
(ducks)
George William Herbert
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On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:05 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 August 2013 08:36, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
These are
On 5/08/2013 7:36 p.m., George Herbert wrote:
I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a
moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change. I posit that this
is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide venue for initial discussion so
am including Wikitech-L.
