This has nothing to do with Commons only supporting Wikipedia. Commons supports ALL of the Wikimedia projects, and always has.
As is quite clearly set out in the Commons SCOPE policy, “a file that is used in good faith on a Wikimedia project is always considered educational”, and hence is in scope. Of course, that includes Wikidata. Under the same policy, Commons does not editorialise on behalf of any of the projects, and an image that is acceptable to Wikidata is by design acceptable to Commons. If the Wikidata community considers that an item on an individual is not acceptable (for example because it has been added solely for self-promotion), Wikidata can - under its own rules - delete it, and hence the link to the image on Commons. Commons would then delete the image as not in use (and not otherwise educational). None of this relies in any way on the specific definition of ‘notable’ as used on the Wikipedias; that’s simply not relevant. The problem here seems to be an additional hurdle that has apparently been added to the guidance given to OTRS volunteers. OTRS has so far as I know no mandate to decline images that fall within Commons Scope, and if they are indeed doing that, the guidance should be changed. Michael > On 25 Feb 2020, at 16:11, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoi, > Apparantly at Commons they have standardised themselves to only support > Wikipedia. > > At Wikidata we have people who are notable according to our standards. We > are actively asking them for images to illustrate our information. The best > suggestion we get is: do not ask for images because they are deleted at > Commons. > > When this is what awaits us when we standardise on one label Wikipedia, it > is obvious that this is the worst scenario for the "other" projects. The > projects who operate to different standards who have notability criteria > different from English Wikipedia. > Thanks, > GerardM > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
