Thomas Dalton wrote:
Now I do, certainly - this incident predates the image undeletion feature.
It's irrelevant, then, isn't it?
If I thought so, then I wouldn't have posted it, eh? :-) My point was to show a real-life example showing how much the system can screw up when everybody operates on a hair trigger; delays of a few days are a chance to correct errors instead of compounding them. Note that some people (Matthew Woodcroft most recently) are also proposing entirely scrubbing revisions that are deemed copyvios, which would make images unrecoverable.
Ironically, many of my stamp scans are probably PD, but I haven't been able to find a clear statement of the stamps' legal status, so I'm conservative and assume they're fully copyrighted.
Stan