On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:22:24 +0100, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/3/06, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/3/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/3/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Also, if someone could let me know where this new policy has been discussed, I'd appreciate it, so that I can register my (belated) opinion on it.
Isn't new exactly people have just finaly decided to inforce the policies we have had for a long time.
Hmm, not exactly. People have decided to interpret the policies we've had for a long time in a way that was not previously accepted.
-Matt
That's it. I don't remember this being discussed at large at all before deletions started.
I haven't been following the evolution of this too closely but I believe it's been happening in stages. By the creation of new or expanding of existing cpeedy deletion criterea.
First we got the criterea to speedy delete unused fair use images (CSD I5), wich for the most part have been fairly uncontroversial. Then came the criterea to speedy delete scertain kinds of fair use images if they did not have a fair use rationale (CSD I6). Then came the whole "invalid fair use tag" thing that made stuff like photos tagged with a {{logo}} template speedyable (CSD I7). Then I7 was expanded[1] to include any fair use image that fail any of the 10 fair use criterea within 48 hours of notifying the uploader[2]. Since the most common criterea to "fail" is the #1 one (wich I think we are all familiar with by now) a special tagging process was later introduced for these cases with a 7 day "timer" rater than a 48 hour one, and that's more or less where we are today.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACriteria_for_speedy_de... 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use_criteria/Amendment/Consensus