On 25/02/2008, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
What is going wrong is that in some cases images that are validly fair use, uploaded and documented as such according to the policies in force at the time of the upload, are being deleted because they are not tagged correctly according to fairly new policies. Notification generally only takes place to the uploader, who in many cases has left the project. I feel that insufficient care is being taken in SOME cases, and that if people bring up concerns like this their issues are treated dismissively.
Yes, it would be nice if the bot messages included this week's rationale. This would help its public relations a *lot*.
However, as I noted before, the actual damage is negligible - most of the images are found on the Internet, and any that aren't can be undeleted. You're bringing this up - have you found images that needed recovery?
- d.