On 11/28/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/28/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
I think what you are arguing is something different to quite a lot of others. They are saying why the policy was necessary. Your complaint is actually that you weren't warned. I don't think anyone would disagree that you should have been notified before the deletions took place.
There were thousands of images (possibly tens of thousands) that qualified for speedy deletion under the new policy. Issuing warnings to the uploader of each such image would have interminably delayed the cleanup, which was already well-overdue. Repeated public notices were issued; we're sorry you missed them or did not realize they applied to you.
Kelly
I fail to see the need to rush in this instance, though. I think a better policy would have been to remove the images from the articles first, then contact the uploaders, and then delete the images in round two. At the most that would take twice as long, which wouldn't be so bad, and more likely it would take less time than that.
But again, I don't see the rush to *delete* the images. It's not like they posed a legitimate legal threat. Their threat was more to the project, to the encyclopedia, and removing them from the articles (and hey, if you really want, from the other pages too), removes that threat.
In any case, the two images I had deleted without being warned were tagged. One was tagged as GFDL, the other was tagged as public domain as I got it from the VOANews website. I actually don't have any idea why the second was removed. The reason given for deletion pointed to a diff that didn't actually exist.
In case anyone cares, the latter image was [[Image:Tv MarkFelt 1jun05 150.jpg]]. It was displayed on http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-06-01-voa30.cfm and the actual image is at http://www.voanews.com/english/images/tv_MarkFelt_1jun05_150.jpg. Ironically, it has actually been replaced by [[Image:W Mark Felt screenshot.jpg]], which is clearly *not* a public domain or free image at all.
Anthony