On 5/3/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/3/06, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin(a)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