Re : Masti - I agree with your position that if the license seems suspect,
and the contributor can't (or won't) provide something a bit more, then the
image should be deleted - that's not the consensus on commons however, for
what that's worth - these doubts have been raised, and the image remains.
The general thinking seems to be that the burden of proof lies with those
suspicious of the original license - I think this is a bit silly. Also - re
: quoting - I'm afraid I'm a 'gmailer' who only hits 'reply' to
post again -
though I'm semi-aware that this does something wrong in regard to quoting,
I'm not sure what, nor how to fix it - my apologies.
Re : Pedro - heh... I take your point - doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about
the merits of the point at hand, though, no? If there's an improvement to be
made, that's gonna be a good thing regardless of the opinion that it's also
important, I reckon....
cheers,
Peter
PM.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, private musings
<thepmaccount(a)gmail.com
wrote:
I believe that this is an example of principle overriding pragmatism in a
way that has great potential to cause the project harm - both in
reputation
and utility. If you're reading this and are a
bit confuddled about the
parameters of discussion in this area - here are some handy bullet
points;
I recall hearing this very argument several years ago when wikipedia was
some orders of magnitude smaller
of course the empiric evidence shows otherwise, wikipedia grew beyond
anyone's predictions
in spite the "if you don't do X, things we downhill", "ikipedia will
lose
all reputatin", "wikipedia will be harmed", "wikipedia will become
useless"
where X ranges could e "censor nudity", "change the sysop election
system"
or "stop anon edits", "delete pokemon" or whatever the
unsourmountable-obstacle-of-the-week is.
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