On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Many images on Wikipedia have been taken without the subject's genuine >> consent. So surely that isn't the issue. > > > > Many are transferred to Commons from Flickr without the uploader's consent > which, in the case of sexually explicit photos taken in a private location, > should always be sought before doing the transfer. > > Unfortunately, that's another rule more honoured in the breach than in the > observance on Commons. (Note that even if the image doesn't show a face, > the Commons page always includes a link to the person's Flickr stream, thus > identifying them.) > > Incidentally, a Commons copyright specialist is currently being banned for > nominating admins' copyright violations for deletion, even though the vast > majority of his deletions have always turned out to be correct ... the > administrators are feeling "harassed" by having their copyright violations > nominated and say he's doing it because he doesn't like them, and that it's > bad for community relations. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems/Pieter_Kuiper > > You couldn't make this stuff up. Not unless you were William Golding, that > is. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
This thread isn't about copyvios, and I don't want to get too far afield, but I think it does kind of show the thought process here sometimes. From my read of the discussions with that editor, as well as the incident discussion you linked, he is being blocked not for the deletion nominations themselves, but for making them disruptively, both by targeting editors he disagrees with and by being abusive during the process. As a parallel on Wikipedia, if someone has a disagreement with another editor, and proceeds to nominate 10 of their articles for deletion with the deletion rationale "Delete this crap by that moron", that person could be sanctioned even if all 10 articles really -do- need to be deleted. I don't know if that's really the case, nor do I feel like reviewing his contributions in enough detail to find out, but the block discussion is absolutely -not- talking about what you said it was. -- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
