On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM, private musingsthepmaccount@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
I consider the fact that I can write 'Commons administrators will be able to see an image here' to be the heart of the problem! I hope the foundation might consider a software tweak of some sort to allow for permanent deletion
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Permanent actions are antithetical to the notion of liberal access. We can be reasonably liberal with our trust because there is so little that can't be undone.
Images with significant legal issues are rare enough that they can be easily handled as exceptions without changing the software at all. The foundation is perfectly capable of fully deleting images and has done so in the past.
I don't see that any change is required.