On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:46:12 +0200, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
Revisiting http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-May/023760.html and checking the long long long list of images at [[Category:Images used with permission]] there are many of them kept becuase they were uploaded before such date.
It's been more than a year since the ruling, I believe older images weren't removed in order to let uploaders tag them properly, find replacements, or so they could be processed at the old Vfd.
Quoting Jimbo
"It is very unfortunate that such images are still being uploaded _new_ when we have not be happy about them for a long time. It is not fair to contributors who are working on such things, since we have no intention to keep them in the long run."
Well, if in the long run they have to go, it could start now. So, I was wondering why aren't they being processed yet. I'm thinking of nominating batches of them at IFD every certain time. On the other hand, however [[WP:IFD]] is clogged, so I was a bit hesitant about doing so without more feedback.
Thus I created [[User:Drini/OldCopyrightedImgs]] which has a small sample for the first bacth and shows how I would be nominating them. I tried to sample different kind of images (uploaded by the webmaster's site, by random users, by respected old users, without source, orphaned images, etc) so we can get an idea what we're dealign with.
Still, IFD is overloaded, so maybe better alternatives can come up? Maybe a IFD-like for this kind of images?
Jimbo, what's your current view about such things?
I don't see how anyone could object, either they come up with a fair use rationale or secure a permission to release the image under a free license or it gets deleted, simgple as that, as you say there have been plenty of time to fix this. Ok a lot of people don't know that these kind of licenses are no longer allowed, but they will know once they get the IFD notice on theyr talk page, and images can be undeleted now too, so there is rely no excuse to delay this any further, if people are uneable to come up with a compelling reason to keep an image within the IFD wait period they can simply request the images be undeleted though Deletion review at a later time if the copyright holder agree to release it under a free license after all. Nothing like a pending deletion to make people spring into action.
Just be sure it's done "by the book", notifying uploaders and adding {{ifdc}} to captions where the image is used and so forth to boost awarenes about why they are beeing deleted. IMHO making as many people as possible understand why this kind of licenses are not acceptable are more important than getting them all hastily deleted, "by permission" and "non commercial" images are still a fairly big problem, people just don't use those tags anymore becase they are not listed (they tend to pick "no rights reserved" instead for some reason). I actualy think {{permission}} and {{noncommercial}} should be added to MediaWiki:Licenses (at least after all the old ones have been cleared out), that way we can easily track them down and delete them rather than digging them out of some other random license tag the uploader choose because he didn't find a good fit (same deal as "don't know" and "some website"). But I digress.