On 4/8/07, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/8/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
- what to do when people who don't quite get it realise what they've
done (e.g. released pictures of selves or kids under a free content licence) and want to change their mind?
We recently got some of those cases. On one hand we [[don't want to be a dick]], on the other hand it is very hard whether users really were not aware that GFDL means commercial use. We are having a case, where a user cited these reason; it turned out to be that he had a conflict on his local wiki and wanted to leave all projects and have all his images deleted. What to do in such cases?
If someone's a new Wikipedia user, perhaps they could be confused. If someone's been around a while on any Wikimedia project, they damn well should know the implications of GFDL. Just like if someone wants to leave Wikipedia and delete all their text contributions - we don't do it. If a newbie shows up and creates three stupid articles and then asks for them to be deleted, there's a better chance.
-Matt