On 5/3/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
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}}? ;-)
If the copy of the painting was made within the uk it is quite posible it is under copyright. Or at least the copyright status would be rather complex.
The image deletion process is, unfortunately, institutionalizing the assumption of bad faith.
There is a differnce between assumeing good faith and assumeing judgement
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
People are just playing safe. Keeping an image we knew there were doubts about would be hard to defend.
-- geni