Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Lodewijk, I find it a bit difficult to assume good faith when someone approaches me with a knife. I find it more natural to defend, and that's what we have to do now. I truly regret that Commons did not develop a more civil approach than submitting deletion requests on every possible

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread olatunde olalekan isaac
Hey Alexander TL:DR. Please, bare in mind that Common community have policies regarding copyright which they will never ignore for a contest like this. Thus, you need not lose your cool and make personal remarks in accusing reviewers of intimidating WLM participants. Such assertion is untrue

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 17.09.2016 21:52, olatunde olalekan isaac wrote: Hey Alexander TL:DR. Please, bare in mind that Common community have policies regarding copyright which they will never ignore for a contest like this. Thus, you need not lose your cool and make personal remarks in accusing reviewers of

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Dear Isaac, First, I would kindly ask that you stop mingling my name, unless you want me to do the same with yours. Second, I regret, but I don't see much logic in what you are saying. If you need the OTRS permission, you should have asked for it in the first turn. But you did not ask for

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Rather than complaining to the process could you please for once think that this is your project too and everyone in this together? It is not my project. Like many other people, I am forced to use it as a common image repository, even though I emphatically do not want to. As you probably know,

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-17 Thread Lodewijk
Hey Alexander, Assuming good faith is always good - even if you have to work harder for it. It makes the interactions more pleasant and the work more fun. So I will always recommend to keep doing it - even if it goes against your natural response. The case where the names don't seem to match

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Is your jury ready?

2016-09-17 Thread Lily
Hi you all, With less than 2 weeks to the end of the contest for the majority of the participating countries, we in the international team want to make sure that you are set or actively working on finalizing your local jury. In order for us to get a sense of where you are in this process and