This page is a bit of information and photos from the
Boston meeting of
Wikipedians. It is obviously in violation of nothing. What were you
thinking?
Fred
The 'legitimate' reason for the complaint, I
gather, is that the
images are marked copyrighted and explicitly deny the right to
redistribute outside Wikipedia. However, VfD is not the place to take
this. That issue is with the copyright status of the images, not the
appropriateness of the page. The page itself is about Wikipedia and
is in a User: namespace, so there are no problems there whatsoever.
-Morven
I referenced the violations right in my email. [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia
is not]] #15, and
[[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] ("If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you
thereby license it
to the public under the GFDL"). The appropriate place to bring up a
violation of what Wikipedia is not is on VfD. As for the violation of
Wikipedia:Copyrights, there really isn't an appropriate place to bring it
up. It's not a copyright violation, so the copyright problems page isn't
appropriate. And the image is still used on a page, so images for deletion
isn't appropriate either.
Similarly, I once received a message on my talk page
saying, "Do you
mind not going and vfding other peoples articles." What are these people
thinking? That you're supposed to list only your own articles?
Timwi
Perhaps the problem is that the page was created by an admin (and that's
what "other people" was supposed to mean). I'm going to take that as my
lesson. Don't list pages created by admins on VfD. Maybe I'll even extend
it to not listing pages created by longstanding Wikipedians on VfD, at least
not without discussing it with them first.
In hindsight I guess I could have started by asking Raul to license the
images under the GFDL and to move the page to meta or his personal homepage
or somewhere more appropriate than en. I highly doubt this would have
worked, but at that point I guess I could have brought the issue up here. I
can't get blocked from en.Wikpedia for bringing up issues on this mailing
list, can I?
Again, I'm not saying the block was against the rules. I don't really care
about the block. My issues are with the page being on Wikipedia, with the
images not being licensed to anyone other than Wikipedia, and with the
rudeness of the admin who blocked me without discussing things with me
first.
Forgive me for not getting this, but why not just let
it languish on VfD? It's clearly not going to get
deleted.
Mark
Last time I checked it still is on VfD. And yes, it's clearly not going to
get deleted, so I'd remove the nomination except for the fact that I'm
blocked.
Anthony