Itzik
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Itzik Edri itzik@infra.co.il wrote:
The story continues.
WMIL uploaded a letter from the Ministry of Justice, addressed to the Commons Community, which confirm that the government don't have interest on this photos. And not surprising, he was deleted from Commoms by the same person who deleted all the photos so far: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ministry_of_Justice%27s_of_Israel_re...
The file was deleted because Hanay uploaded it as a self-authored work. This is obviously not the case, so the deletion is valid. Please refer to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SCOPE and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:L
If Israeli law has an exemption for government works, then perhaps we can look at restoring it.
It saddens me that I am having to say this to the Chairman of Wikimedia Israel, because it truly seems to me that you don't know how Commons operates and what our mission is.
Cheers
Russavia