We do need tackle this problem somehow, but I'm not sure what I'd think is the best way to do it.
I think redirecting the possibly unfree category to {{speedy}} is a mistake - simply because its such a vast change. Note also there are files awaiting review that were uploaded in 2007, so the backlog is still a nuisance; and with files coming through other wikimedia projects that problem isn't going to go away either.
I do think that we should try our best to empty Commons of "possibly unfree Flickr images" in their entirety, not just the recent additions. The proposals here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Flickr_images#Reviving might be appropriate. Overly bureaucratic maybe, but I'd rather have a process that is administratively difficult, but the community can accept, than a slicker process that annoys the community. That strongly indicates a "slow" deletion process to me - maybe a variant on {{no permission since}}.
As an aside: Flickr users are perfectly entitled to cease to offer an image under a free license, and instead use a non-free on, but they can't stop other people distributing it under the license if they got it freely. That makes using Flickr a pain in the neck for any downstream user, like us, as we cannot prove the license here was ever valid.. (and round in circles we go)
On 01/04/2008, Alex G g1ggyman@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, yeah, that's a feasible solution. Changing the attitudes/instructions might take a while, but it'd probably be worth it in the end.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Change the way to do flickr reviewing. If the image differs from flickr, put {{speedy}} I use to delete those images with flickr source which don't have a free license, because it's too improbable that an image uploaded two days ago has changed its flickr license to an unfree one.
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