Hello David,
it depends. Please point to me what you mean so that I can give you my opinion on the cases.
I personally disagree with some of the decisions the Commons community made in the past, and I do think that in some cases Commons has a too broad definition for educational, and sometimes in my opinion Commons community has an interpretation of board resolutions that is not the same as I approved it [1]. I also think that Commons is not a free media repository like every other in the web. It has a mission, and this mission is the same as the mission of the Foundation. It was created to support other WMF projects so that not every free image used by the projects must be uploaded in every project, and this is its role inside of the WMF projects. If it do come to a clarification of the scope of Commons by the board my personal opinion is quite clear from my statements above.
Greetings Ting
[1] - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Alan_dersho...
David Levy wrote:
Ting Chen wrote:
It is certainly possible that Jimmy in doing his work had made some false decisions. We all know that he do make failures. Maybe he didn't researched the context of a particular image, maybe in some cases his criteria was too narrow. One can discuss those on the case basis.
Errors are understandable, but Jimmy deliberately cast aside the reasoned views of the community's most trusted users by continually wheel-warring with a generic deletion summary (an extraordinarily disrespectful method). Does this have your full support as well?
David Levy
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