Rob Church wrote:
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Now for the relevant bit. It's been discussed before, a little, and I
touched upon it in a recent discussion sparked off from the newbie's
questions...but it could be feasible for us to replace our
Special:Upload pages with something a bit more intelligent. Making use
of the licencing dropdowns, we could, I think, redirect free images to
Commons in a seamless fashion (after checking existence and providing
a courteous note to the user, of course).
That's a brilliant idea. I'd really like to see it implemented. Not only
for English Wikipedia, but for all Wikimedia projects.
This has advantages and disadvantages. The user's
upload experience is
simple, and the image can be used as before without trouble. On the
other hand, deliberate or accidental mis-selection of the licence
[cw]ould result in an influx of non-free materials arriving on the
Commons.
Even though I'm not a Commons expert, I can deduce that Commons too has
a problem with wrong licenses, hence some of the deletion.
[snip]
Filip
P.S. Sorry for doubleposts... I used Reply to all