Its a balancing we need the images but we also the goodwill that the
removal of images creates, what we dont need are court battles or media
battles with high profile people the loss of a couple of images every now
and then shouldnt be a big deal thats the way I treated such requests when
I was on OTRS. I'd review the image its usage and then decide if there was
a critical necessity for the image if there wasnt I'd delete it. When the
image is sourced through flickr like sources that doesnt stop another
person copying it back to Commons at a later date anyway.
On 8 April 2012 20:01, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:
Hi Ryan,
Op 6-4-2012 2:22, Ryan Kaldari schreef:
This is generally a straightforward decision per Commons:Photographs of
identifiable people. If the photos were taken in a private place, consent
is required. If the photos were taken in a public place, consent is not
required (with exceptions for some countries). What was the justification
for not following the Photographs of identifiable people guideline?
That probaby has to do with the fact that some people tried to (ab)use
this rule to get images deleted they didn't like. Say I take
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_SOPA_Boiler_Roo….
If I would want to get rid of that picture I just say we don't have
consent documented. For this picture we're probably able to get that
afterwards because we know these people, but for most picture this is an
easy way to get images deleted which you don't like.
Maarten
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