On 5/3/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
You make some excellent points. A way of easily migrating free images once checked by confirmed users would solve my original problem. Can you elaborate on these increasingly stringent demands?
Aside from the propensity of random people to tag 15th-century paintings with {{nsd}}? ;-)
The image deletion process is, unfortunately, institutionalizing the assumption of bad faith. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PUI#April 30 (specifically the discussion of the Himmler photo); people seem to be approaching the issue of image sourcing with the intent to delete as many images as possible, preferably for purely bureaucratic reasons.
Kirill