All ended in a good way as Sven Manguard unblocked her. Hope the Hebrew Wikipedia will recover from the painful memories soon.
Regards, Jee On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
