Thanks for this clarity Paulo.
Is there a way to move more of the underlying policies onto a public wiki
rather than a closed one, to limit some of this confusion?
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On Wed., Feb. 26, 2020, 5:36 a.m. Paulo Santos Perneta, <
paulosperneta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The OP is misleading. The issue is not with Commons at
all, but with OTRS.
As far as I know, Commons never, ever, deleted a file which was in use in
any Wikimedia project, with the notable expectation of copyvios. Otherwise,
use in *any* wikimedia project = on scope for Commons.
Apparently some OTRS volunteers follow some outdated procedures - including
that one related to selfies, which was mentioned - but that is a problem
exclusively with OTRS. I'm part of that team, and I always had the freedom
to decide which looked like a genuine selfie, and which was problematic at
that (e.g., with a copyright notice at the metadata). And, as far as I
know, anyone willing to help fixing those problems at OTRS is very much
welcome there. When the volunteers are very few, and the ones complaining
do not volunteer themselves, it only adds up to the pressure on the few
existing volunteers, making everything worse.
Best,
Paulo
Peter Southwood <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> escreveu no dia quarta,
26/02/2020 à(s) 06:04:
This does seem unreasonable. Do they have an
explanation at Commons?
This is happening without standardising in one label Wikipedia, so it is
jumping to quite a conclusion to assume that the issue is related.
For the record, I am also opposed to rebranding to Wikipedia, but I do
not
think this issue is necessarily related.
Cheers,
Peter
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Why renaming to Wikipedia will wreak havoc on
other
projects
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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