On 8/23/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23/08/07, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)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.