--- Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
Wikipedia unfortunately has tens of thousands of non free images, which we tolerate rather more than we should. The fair use categories are alas dumping grounds for copyright violations.
Yes it is. But having the ability to check before deleting is elementary logic. His behaviour is such that he is also almost certainly deleting perfectly valid images, all because he couldn't be bothered to do some careful checking before deleting. The people who have complained about his behaviour aren't vandals sneaking in copyrighted images, but people who have a history of being careful to follow the rules as they existed at the time. If he simply checked with people he could establish whether the images are clear copyright violations or simply miscategorised images. He however has a history on this issue of ignoring everyone else, not bothering to check, and just making blanket deletions. That is not the way to work with people.
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