<span class="gmail_quote"></span>Dear all,<br><br>You may have heard of Luc Viatour, aka [[User:LViatour]] : he is one of our best contributors on Commons, has uploaded hundreds of very good quality pictures and about 30 of his pictures have received the "Featured Pictures" status.
<br><br>Now someone has proposed his "copyright template" for deletion, while saying "Unless his template is moved to userspace and substed in all cases, it and all it tags (all images of Lviatour) should be deleted", which I think is very rude and aggressive. The deletion request is on
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Lviatour" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Lviatour
</a> .<br><br>Now I'm asking, what is this stupid rule about about personal copyright template ? This one (ie
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:LviatourCredit" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:LviatourCredit</a> ) doesn't do any harm :
<br>1) It includes a double license GFDL-CC-BY-SA, and that's all.
<br>2) It tells people who is the author and how to re-use the image, which is very good (see the related discussion about people not knowing how to reuse images from Commons)<br>3) It says that "an email would be appreciated", which is not against the rules as it is not mandatory.
<br><br>Now if we start deleting templates like this, we can surely say goodbye to our best contributors. We surely do not want people like Luc Viatour to get out from Commons, do we ?<br><br>Regards,<br>Rémi<br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Korrigan" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Korrigan</a><br>