Stan Shebs wrote:
This is the kind of situation where you might want to throw around some of your personal authority; there are a lot of editors not getting the message (or not wishing to accept it)
I have a collection of howls of protest on my talk page placed there by people who are upset that I deleted an image they uploaded.
People just don't get it.
uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
This is the kind of situation where you might want to throw around some of your personal authority; there are a lot of editors not getting the message (or not wishing to accept it)
I have a collection of howls of protest on my talk page placed there by people who are upset that I deleted an image they uploaded.
Yep, people are willing to dump all over admins, but I've noticed they get a lot quieter when Jimbo steps in. Mailing list habitues have known for quite a while that this all was coming, but even now the upload form doesn't directly tell people that the fair-use criteria are being taken seriously these days.
People just don't get it.
Well, you're doing God's work. Like turning a supertanker, slow to get started, but I suspect that a year from now, bogus "fair-use" images will be speedied with little ado.
Stan
On 20 Oct 2005, at 20:35, uninvited@nerstrand.net wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
This is the kind of situation where you might want to throw around some of your personal authority; there are a lot of editors not getting the message (or not wishing to accept it)
I have a collection of howls of protest on my talk page placed there by people who are upset that I deleted an image they uploaded.
People just don't get it.
Thats true. I tried that too.
I think we should transwiki all non free images to nonfree.wikimedia.org remove upload rights to there, only allow new images to commons, and er make a free encyclopaedia...
Justinc