Re: [Commons-l] Just how reviewed is a Flickr review?

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(a)gmail.com> wrote: