On 5/3/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/3/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
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.
When it comes to image uploads and tagging, I don't assume bad faith. I assume cheerfully aggressive cluelessness. I wish the problems were caused by people acting in bad faith -- it'd be easier to deal with, then.
Fair enough. I'll point out, though, that "aggressive cluelessness" is hardly limited to people who upload images. It's just as easy to add one of a number of nice little "This image will die a horrid death in a week unless the uploader satisfies Chapter V, Subsection 12, paragraph xvii of the Great Wikipedia Image Rulebook" templates to an image as it is to upload it in the first place; and while I understand that many images can't be readily identified by anyone other than the original uploader, you'd think that people would make some minimal effort for the really, REALLY obvious ones.
Kirill Lokshin