--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
And in my opinion, we should move to a policy situation where you would not have to go through the rigamarole you had to go through with this image. You should have been able to delete it on sight as being tantamount to vandalism, which it essentially is.
As always, this is a question of who's authority and who enforces it, and what checks can be in place to remedy such. And because MW lacks any ability to do revert an image deletion, there seems to be no degrees of enforcement here. A template message could explain the situation after the fact:
On the authority vested in me by Jimbo, I hereby deem this [probably copyrighted] image of [a woman in a safari coat] as *vandalism dangerous to Wikipedia* and do hereby remedy the situation by deleting it with extreme prejudice and hence without any unnecessary and time-wasting debate about fair-use etc.
I would caution against empowering over 400 sysops with any ability to enforce unenforceable prejudiciality. I think its hard to find a meaningful difference between "strange culture" and a operative respect for Wikipedia:Civility.
SV
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
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I offer this up as an example of some process
problems we have in
dealing with invalid fair use claims.
And in my opinion, we should move to a policy situation where you would not have to go through the rigamarole you had to go through with this image. You should have been able to delete it on sight as being tantamount to vandalism, which it essentially is.
We have this strange social culture built up around images which I believe is caused mostly by the fact that image deletion is instantly permanent, rather than being something that can be reverted. If we could revert image deletions as easily (or nearly as easily) as we revert deletions of random bits of unacceptable text, we would be much better able to pick and choose images wisely.
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