I dont know about all that. All I advocate is a basic bonehead level reading of whats
posted with the image.
It would appear that some are using bots to find and autopost flags and comments. Dunno
if thats as useful.
S
--- peter green <plugwash(a)P10Link.net> wrote:
on a related note admins (who i suspect are the bulk
of this lists members)
should remember that anyone can throw any tag they like onto a page. When
deleting an image because of a tag imo an admin should at MINIMUM.
1: follow any links on the page (especially ones within wikimedia) looking
for obvious license/source information
2: check the page history (in case the source/license info was removed by
vandals)
3: check that (if applicable) the correct steps to notify the uploader (as
mentioned in the no source/license tags) were actually carried out (btw do
you think we should change the policies to require notifying users on what
appears to be thier primary wiki as well as on commons, i know i only log
into commons occasionally atm because i'm not actively involved in any
goings on there since the really unused list became unusable). If they
weren't notified then the most reasonable course of action is probablly to
notify them and reset the clock).
4: perform a check usage (we really need a proper check usage tool that
checks all wikis without causing huge server load) and deal with (at least
remove and if possible replace) any usage of the image.
-----Original Message-----
From: commons-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:commons-l-bounces@wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of stevertigo
Sent: 10 July 2006 22:33
To: commons-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Commons-l] intelligence in flagging
I just logged in to commons, and found a note reporting a problem with
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bush_War_Budget_2003-crop.jpg
This, as noted in the text, is a crop of
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bush_War_Budget_2003.jpg
which is found to be
public domain.
Those paying close attention will note that the cropped image
also has special code in
the title, ("-crop") indicating that its a crop of another image.
Nevertheless the
image got flagged.
This presents itself as a problem as Ive noticed a certain
automation, and sadly a lack
of intelligence,
in flagging particular images. A more productive usage of time
would be to simply
reference the
given link, and add the appropriate information.
Stevertigo
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