Suite of the drama.
A request for a topic ban against LGA, who made these deletion
requests, was started by Hanay, a user from the Hebrew Wikipedia.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Us…
Now she is blocked for one week for "canvassing", because she informed
the Hebrew Wikipedia of the request.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Bl…
This affair is going to degenerate in a full war between Commons and
some Wikipedias, if a solution is not found.
Regards,
Yann
2014-06-17 5:04 GMT+05:30 Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi,
Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and
threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of
famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense
Forces.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_w…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Beba_Idel…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Abba_Hush…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aharon_Me…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Avraham_S…
These are famous and valuable pictures, including two featured
pictures on the Hebrew Wikipedia. These files have already been
deleted and restored 3 times. When the URAA issue was not convincing
enough, a new reson for deletion was advanced: that publication
details were not given. Anyone with 2 bits of common sense can
understand that these famous pictures were published soon after they
were taken. There is no reasonable doubt about that. In addition,
publication is not a requirement for being in the public domain in
Israel.
After I restored these images, I was threatem by LGA, who is a
delete-only account:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Us…
There, more contributors argue on this issue.
By asking absurb requirements about publication details, these
contributors threaten the project as a whole. If insisting, it will
lead people to upload pictures like these locally instead of Commons.
Then the idea of a central repository for all Wikimedia projects is
gone.
Instead of looking for a reason to destroy these files, they should
try to find a reason to keep them.
Regards,
Yann