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 versions of Wikipedia that allow "Fair Use" need to think about importing files from each other, or even looking for files on more than one other wiki - first look on Commons and then look on those wikipedia that have the same fair use policy. But if Commons were to close more deletion debates as "it may be allowed there but not here so move it back" then most of the problem would go away.
The corollary of this and the obvious fourth option is to stop accepting "fair use" images and only host ones that are genuinely freely licensed Jonathan On 6 August 2013 03:04, Alan Liefting <alieft...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > > 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. >> >> It is probably one of the causes of the increasing backlog at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Category:Articles_with_**missing_files<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_missing_files> > I had tried to clear the backlog but it is futile. > > > A > > > ______________________________**_________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikien-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l> > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
