This has nothing to do with Commons only supporting Wikipedia. Commons supports ALL of the
Wikimedia projects, and always has.
As is quite clearly set out in the Commons SCOPE policy, “a file that is used in good
faith on a Wikimedia project is always considered educational”, and hence is in scope. Of
course, that includes Wikidata.
Under the same policy, Commons does not editorialise on behalf of any of the projects, and
an image that is acceptable to Wikidata is by design acceptable to Commons.
If the Wikidata community considers that an item on an individual is not acceptable (for
example because it has been added solely for self-promotion), Wikidata can - under its own
rules - delete it, and hence the link to the image on Commons.
Commons would then delete the image as not in use (and not otherwise educational).
None of this relies in any way on the specific definition of ‘notable’ as used on the
Wikipedias; that’s simply not relevant.
The problem here seems to be an additional hurdle that has apparently been added to the
guidance given to OTRS volunteers. OTRS has so far as I know no mandate to decline images
that fall within Commons Scope, and if they are indeed doing that, the guidance should be
changed.
Michael
On 25 Feb 2020, at 16:11, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Apparantly at Commons they have standardised themselves to only support
Wikipedia.
At Wikidata we have people who are notable according to our standards. We
are actively asking them for images to illustrate our information. The best
suggestion we get is: do not ask for images because they are deleted at
Commons.
When this is what awaits us when we standardise on one label Wikipedia, it
is obvious that this is the worst scenario for the "other" projects. The
projects who operate to different standards who have notability criteria
different from English Wikipedia.
Thanks,
GerardM
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