On 8/23/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/08/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
I spent a considerable amount of time talking to the person on enwp who didn't want his images on commons. He was only ever to substantiate his position with two arguments: (1) He can't watchlist pages on commons from Enwp so he misses changes. When it was pointed out to him that you can enable commons to email you on watchlist updates, his response was "why should I have to?". (2) He believes that commons is nothing more than a repository of penis images. He wasn't swayed by people pointing out that there are plenty of penis images on enwp too, and that commons has 1.75 millon images quite a few of which aren't penises.
Problem (3) is his clear lack of understanding of what "free content" means. And problem (4) is he somehow became an admin on en:wp without this becoming apparent. And problem (5) is how many other admins on the thread agreed he should be able to do things completely contrary to the project goals. But anyway.
I was trying to be nice... It's true though.
When I talked to him on IRC he seemed to be okay with the idea of keeping the images both on commons and enwp. I don't see a problem with enwp deciding to do that for someone who really wants to, since it would address his watchlisting concern.
... but doing something because we're nice doesn't imply we should accept licensing conditions which wouldn't allow us to do otherwise.