On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:59:06 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
I disagree, and I'd like to see file renaming opened up. It sucks seeing a file with a blatantly wrong name sitting there for years. Sure, the file names could be totally arbitrary (a882be8.jpg) or they could be extremely meaningful - but having them stuck at whatever the uploader originally thought of is not ideal. Especially since redirects exist and work.
Yes, some of my own files have "wrong" names, such as when I attempted to give them names that included the date a photo was taken, but later realized I got the date wrong for some of the pictures and fixed it in the description, but was stuck with a mismatched name.