On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:59:06 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
I disagree, and I'd like to see file renaming opened up. It sucks seeing a file with a blatantly wrong name sitting there for years. Sure, the file names could be totally arbitrary (a882be8.jpg) or they could be extremely meaningful - but having them stuck at whatever the uploader originally thought of is not ideal. Especially since redirects exist and work.
Yes, some of my own files have "wrong" names, such as when I attempted to give them names that included the date a photo was taken, but later realized I got the date wrong for some of the pictures and fixed it in the description, but was stuck with a mismatched name.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Yes, some of my own files have "wrong" names, such as when I attempted to give them names that included the date a photo was taken, but later realized I got the date wrong for some of the pictures and fixed it in the description, but was stuck with a mismatched name.
Or misspelling names, or misidentifying locations or people..or even the opposite, where you upload an image of an animal that you can't really identify, but with help you manage to. In practice I've ended up uploading it to picasaweb or something, and only putting it on commons once I knew what it was. (Arguably not a bad thing...)
Steve