geni wrote:
The image situation on wikipedia is a toxic dump of a mess. Sorting it out is not easy. If you think you know a better way do it do so. No one is going to stand in your way.
Not quite true - as this thread has shown, there are people who want to do the summary executions anyway, despite expressed objections.
Now as it happens, I agree with the expedited process - I've tried pinging uploaders in the past myself, and the response rate is about 5-10%, so it's generally seemed like a waste of time. If we had more people doing image patrolling, it might be possible to adopt a more stately approach, but the number of bad uploads is too high to keep up with now. It's unfortunate that Anthere's images got caught in the crossfire, but expect that kind of thing to keep happening until the uploads are under better control. (As with the DDR copyvios on de:, mass image copyvios are the kind of publicity we don't really want!)
Stan