On 24/08/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
geni wrote:
The answer to "Images get moved to Commons without the correct attribution and history being kept." is unhelpful. You have people in effect mass uploading copyvios and you suggest asking them to take more care?
The funny thing is that they're opposing to a bot uploading to commons because "Images get moved to Commons without the correct attribution", when bots are those who keep things better. If it's not done with a bot, or commonshelper, etc. it will likely end up commonised by some random guy which only wants the image on his article and is more likely to get it wrong. The moral: if you want to be sure your images are well-uploaded on commons, upload them yourself.
What Platonides said.
Geni, what do you think a more useful answer is? I could write something that's not true, but much more soothing. Isn't it kind of the same to objecting of Wikipedia "someone copied text from my website without my permission"? We can fix things when we know about them, but we can hardly promise "all edits will be reviewed, all mistakes will be corrected, within X time of being made."
cheers Brianna