I don't think that more policies and guidelines are the answer; we already
have official policies like this one that are routinely ignored because people concentrate on licencing at deletion discussions to the exclusion of all other issues. The correct answer is more effective use of existing guidelines and policies, both through better education and awareness that there are important issues beyond copyright on one hand, and if that doesn't work, thinking about some heavier consequences for users and admins who persistently ignore such policies.
Cheers, Craig
On 9 April 2012 12:06, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
maybe we need a Flickr specific policy/guide like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Precautionary_principle or put more emphasis on the precautionary principle with living people change it from significant doubt to plausible doubt, where the onus for undeletion requires the photographer to establish permission.
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Part of the answer might be to encourage a succession of popular and well proposed Commons RFCs moving beyond the polarization of "OMG porn" vs. "OMG censorship".
Topics such as the OTRS discussion http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/OTRS_2012 are reasonable and may result in useful changes in policy, not just on Commons either. Perhaps we should create handy shortcuts for these (like [[com:RFC6]] or somesuch) and keep plugging them in all related more visible disputes and wonky inflammatory deletion review discussions.
Sensible discussions might draw in more "stable" folks to consider going for commons RFA too.
Cheers, Fae