I personally think the icons are really cool and a nice addition.
However, when we were discussing them on #wikinews, we noticed that
news trust [1] was one of the icons (presumably because the equivalent
wikinews template has it). Thats a rather specialized site for sharing
news articles. I don't really think it applies to commons imho.
[1]
http://newstrust.net
Cheers,
-bawolff