On 7/17/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/17/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Please don't make automated moves.. Commons is not yet as effective at dealing with En's copyright problems as en is.
Also, creating dupe accounts isn't so bad.. so long as they are dupes of you and not dupes of someone else.
If that's the only concern, wouldn't that be easy to address by only uploading/moving old Free images? (presumably if a picture's copyright status hasn't been discovered in a few months, it won't for a long time, and being on Commons versus en would be a moot issue).
Because the number of completely bogus claims of free content on En is rather large... Commons sets a more strict criteria than en has had historically. There are a large number of images on en accepted with reasonings like "Someone uploaded this, and I assume they weren't trying to violate copyright law, thus thus is GFDL" which would be deleted in a moment..
Experience on commons shows that a large number of the 'free' images imported from other projects are not free.
The move is a great time to reevaluate the claims made, and we lose that with mass automatic moves... So what advantage would automatic moves provide?