The problem is not just one of fair user images. A lot of the problem (at
least when I dealt with it in the past) was about freely licensed images
that were deemed unfit for commons because of things like trademarks, right
of panorama, privacy rights of individuals, etc. English-language projects
tend to take US law as a guide on those; Commons does less so, and things
that are generally considered OK in the US are not necessarily permitted
worldwide.
-Matthew
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:11 AM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Suggested Fix 3, this is a problem of deletionism, and
the best way to deal
with delietionism is to stop deleting things and seek alternate solutions.
In this case Commons deletion discussions need a "return to source Wiki"
option as opposed to deletion of files migrated from other wikis. And those
versions of Wikipedia that allow "Fair Use" need to think about importing
files from each other, or even looking for files on more than one other
wiki - first look on Commons and then look on those wikipedia that have the
same fair use policy. But if Commons were to close more deletion debates as
"it may be allowed there but not here so move it back" then most of the
problem would go away.
The corollary of this and the obvious fourth option is to stop accepting
"fair use" images and only host ones that are genuinely freely licensed
Jonathan
On 6 August 2013 03:04, Alan Liefting <aliefting(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
On 5/08/2013 7:36 p.m., George Herbert wrote:
> I have just had to deal with this - AGAIN - and would like to rail for a
> moment, hoping to provoke discussion to promote change. I posit that
this
> is big enough to deserve a Foundation-wide
venue for initial discussion
so
am
including Wikitech-L.
It is probably one of the causes of the increasing backlog at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Category:Articles_with_**missing_files<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_missing_files>
I had tried to clear the backlog but it is
futile.
A
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