The reason I ask is that an image was deleted on Wikipedia as lacking source/copyright information, but the offender just linked to the article from an identical image on Commons (the article is Katharine Hepburn). The image has been tagged on commons as lacking source info since Feb. 10.
k
Commons has their own admins, though not as many of them, and many of them (myself included) are not on Commons nearly as much time as they are on Wikis (there isn't as much to talk about on Commons, less reason to check it regularly, psychologically speaking).
In any event... if it is a specific case, one can always nominate it for deletion on Commons and be done with it, and it will get culled fairly quickly. In a general sense, Commons does need better automated deletion, but I don't know how to go about getting that (it would be great to have a trans-wiki OrphanBot).
In this particular case, I took care of it, though I know that's not a long-term solution. It might be worth sending an e-mail to the Commons mailing list.
FF
On 3/3/06, Katefan0 katefan0wiki@gmail.com wrote:
The reason I ask is that an image was deleted on Wikipedia as lacking source/copyright information, but the offender just linked to the article from an identical image on Commons (the article is Katharine Hepburn). The image has been tagged on commons as lacking source info since Feb. 10.
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On 3 Mar 2006, at 22:54, Fastfission wrote:
Commons has their own admins, though not as many of them, and many of them (myself included) are not on Commons nearly as much time as they are on Wikis (there isn't as much to talk about on Commons, less reason to check it regularly, psychologically speaking).
In any event... if it is a specific case, one can always nominate it for deletion on Commons and be done with it, and it will get culled fairly quickly. In a general sense, Commons does need better automated deletion, but I don't know how to go about getting that (it would be great to have a trans-wiki OrphanBot).
In this particular case, I took care of it, though I know that's not a long-term solution. It might be worth sending an e-mail to the Commons mailing list.
It can be slow - uncourced stuff etc goes quickly but stuff uploaded as free can take months. Often it does have the problem of bouncing between wikis - if all the free stuff was on commons life would be much easier.
Can we just implement single sign in and start to move towards this?
Justinc
On 3/3/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
Can we just implement single sign in and start to move towards this?
If the image has been deleted by consensus from English Wikipedia, maybe getting a developer to put it into the bad images file will stop the commons image working (depends how the thing is implemented, and I'm not about to dive into a load of ugly PHP code right now so I'll leave that up to others).
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 3/3/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
Can we just implement single sign in and start to move towards this?
If the image has been deleted by consensus from English Wikipedia, maybe getting a developer to put it into the bad images file will stop the commons image working (depends how the thing is implemented, and I'm not about to dive into a load of ugly PHP code right now so I'll leave that up to others).
Why so complicated? Just block it with a local image, like a red X or similar. However, in most cases it's probably smarter just to list it on the Commons deletion pages like Alphax suggested elsewhere in this thread. When in doubt, I'd say http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:DEL is nearly always an appropriate venue. Just tagging and hoping it will disappear like on en does not work on Commons at the moment, I'm afraid.
grm_wnr
Katefan0 wrote:
The reason I ask is that an image was deleted on Wikipedia as lacking source/copyright information, but the offender just linked to the article from an identical image on Commons (the article is Katharine Hepburn). The image has been tagged on commons as lacking source info since Feb. 10.
Which image? There's a list of commons admins at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:List_of_administrators_by_language (I'm one) and places to request deletion are at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:DeletionMenu.