Well I am not an admin, but as on all other projects, you must play by the rules. I noticed the deletion notice for your letter claimed it was a "derivative work", implying that the file was uploaded as artwork. It either included a logo letterhead that has not previously been uploaded (see [1]) or it needed the PD-text license (see [2]) instead of whatever the default uploader slaps on (probably "own work").
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Logos_of_governments_and_government_agencies [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-text On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Itzik Edri <it...@infra.co.il> wrote: > The story continues. > > WMIL uploaded a letter from the Ministry of Justice, addressed to the > Commons Community, which confirm that the government don't have interest on > this photos. And not surprising, he was deleted from Commoms by the same > person who deleted all the photos so far: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ministry_of_Justice%27s_of_Israel_response_to_copyrights_issue.jpg > > Hard not to feel that the reason to this massive deletions and this kind of > behavior does not cross the boundaries of URAA enforcement to probably more > personal views... > > The original letter can be found on Hebrew Wikipedia: > > https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:%D7%AA%D7%92%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%96%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D.jpg > > Itzik > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ministry_of_Justice%27s_of_Israel_response_to_copyrights_issue.jpg > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
