Dear all,
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.
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
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Lviat….
Now I'm asking, what is this stupid rule about about personal copyright
template ? This one (ie
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:LviatourCredit ) doesn't do any
harm :
1) It includes a double license GFDL-CC-BY-SA, and that's all.
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)
3) It says that "an email would be appreciated", which is not against the
rules as it is not mandatory.
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 ?
Regards,
Rémi
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Korrigan