[Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 12:10:16 UTC 2009


Waerth;

What were the reasons given for the blocking? Also, I understand if you're
upset and don't want to upload them any more, but if you like, send me the
best several of the shots (with caption please) and I will upload them to
English Wikipedia.

-Dan

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Waerth <waerth at asianet.co.th> wrote:

> And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked.
>
> Waerth
> > The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the
> > army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and
> > molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation
> > around government house in a more peacefull setting after the army had
> > disbanded the red shirts.
> >
> > Even though I have refused for 2,5 years to add any more of my knowledge
> > to the Dutch wikipedia about thailand because of the bunch of idiotic
> > civil servants ruling the place as if it is their own personal fiefdom I
> > decided to give a couple of pictures.
> >
> > Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why ....
> > because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 .... anyone
> > with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the
> > license or would have done it themselves as they could safely assume
> > that I would give them the same license as the other pictures .....
> >
> > But no the damn civil servants put them up for deletion.
> >
> > This is really hurting especially since I have done so much for the
> > Dutch wikipedia and because for the first 6 pictures I was in a
> > situation of violence. I regret deeply that I have donated these
> > pictures to the wikimedia foundation and I hope that they will be
> > deleted. As Soon As Possible.
> >
> > And do not suggest Commons. That project is even worse. I would need a
> > week just to study all of their idiocies.
> >
> > Waerth/Walter van Kalken
> >
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Dan Rosenthal


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