On 9/12/05, uninvited@nerstrand.net uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
Images hosted on commons cannot be protected by admins from en.wikipedia.
An admin on EN need simply download the image, upload it to EN, and protect. We even have a template, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:C-uploaded, for this issue.
Another problem area is that images on en: supercede those on commons with the same title. Therefore, an image protected on commons could be vandalised by uploading a vandalised image by the same name on en (Unless there is a technical solution to this that I am not aware of. I haven't tried it).
You edit the image page on EN (either leaving it blank, or applying the appropriate protection tag, like {{mprotected}}). Then protect on EN like normal. That stops non-admins from uploading to EN.
In general, I believe that there should be more trust and cooperation between the projects, to the point of having some process for fairly routine granting of commons adminship to en admins.
How about the reverse? Are we prepared to grand EN adminship to all Commons admins?
I do note that there is an agreement to protect main page images that are on commons. My concern is with other prominent pages. The unexpected vandalism spree that accompanied the last U.S. presidential elections would be an example.
As far as I know, the Commons is perfectly happy to protect images for other reasons. They even have a template, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Protected. I've never seen a request for protection on the Commons Village pump that wasn't honored.
[[User:Dbenbenn]], [[Commons:User:Dbenbenn]].