Suite of the drama. A request for a topic ban against LGA, who made these deletion requests, was started by Hanay, a user from the Hebrew Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:LGA
Now she is blocked for one week for "canvassing", because she informed the Hebrew Wikipedia of the request. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Blocks_and_protections#Block_of_Hanay_for_cross-wiki_canvassing This affair is going to degenerate in a full war between Commons and some Wikipedias, if a solution is not found. Regards, Yann 2014-06-17 5:04 GMT+05:30 Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and > threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of > famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense > Forces. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_were_deleted_by_User:Fastily_that_I_am_aware_of_them > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Beba_Idelson_Ada_Maimon1952.jpg > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Abba_Hushi_1956.jpg > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aharon_Meskin_-_Ben_Gurion_-_Israel_Prize1960.jpg > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Avraham_Shlonsky_1952.jpg > > These are famous and valuable pictures, including two featured > pictures on the Hebrew Wikipedia. These files have already been > deleted and restored 3 times. When the URAA issue was not convincing > enough, a new reson for deletion was advanced: that publication > details were not given. Anyone with 2 bits of common sense can > understand that these famous pictures were published soon after they > were taken. There is no reasonable doubt about that. In addition, > publication is not a requirement for being in the public domain in > Israel. > > After I restored these images, I was threatem by LGA, who is a > delete-only account: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:Yann > There, more contributors argue on this issue. > > By asking absurb requirements about publication details, these > contributors threaten the project as a whole. If insisting, it will > lead people to upload pictures like these locally instead of Commons. > Then the idea of a central repository for all Wikimedia projects is > gone. > > Instead of looking for a reason to destroy these files, they should > try to find a reason to keep them. > > Regards, > > Yann _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
