It does seem a little silly that people can upload images without a license tag. This functionality could easily be added - perhaps any upload without a tag selected from the drop down or an appropriate template in the summary should not be able to be uploaded.
It would be nice to still allow people to select "I don't know what the license is" so that those with more experience can help (particularly easy for us in the case of old photographs).
On 11/07/06, Anthony <wikilegal@inbox.org> wrote:
On 7/11/06, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On a more general note: in my opinion an uploader is ALWAYS responsible for
> correct and complete license and source information. It is not a duty for an
> admin to go and get it when either is missing, nor should the Commons admin
> chase al around the Wikimedia landscape to notify an uploader on his home
> wiki(s).
>
> It is the responsibility of admins to ensure no policy violations occur, to
> notify users of possible violations and/or missing information and educate
> users where needed.
>
> Requiring admins to follow each and every link in search for information
> regarding an image is definately not the way to go, in my opinion.
>
In my opinion the way to go would be to use common sense. If an image
description says it's a crop of another image, looking at that image
description would be a common sense thing to do.
Of course, if common sense isn't required, and any image without a tag
is immediately deletable without any further checks, then images
shouldn't be allowed to be uploaded without tags in the first place.
Anthony
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