We need an Uncommons, where the strict open license / PD rules are abandoned and we accept images as long as their fair use can be established. And don't delete unless that fair use is credibly questioned.
Conflating and comingling our educational role with open content advocacy was always risky and is proving impossible. Without devaluing open content, we need to separately support fair use for educational purposes, and stop letting cross-project advocacy games screw with our educational mission.
Third parties may or may not be able to re-redistribute, but we simply put it up with an explicit "reuse at your own risk".
I don't recall if the code which handles finding images at Commons can take a search path of multiple alternate image sources; if so, I would like to propose Uncommons as a project, initial central file upload default target replacement for Commons, and putting it in said search path.
This has gone on too long.
-george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Osmar Valdebenito b1mbo.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
If you take a look at the undeletion requests after the URAA discussion, most of the images restored were deleted afterwards anyway.[1][2] The only exception that I've seen are some German stamps that haven't been deleted (yet). The problem is that, at this moment, most of the people whose valid images were quickly deleted and re-deleted are tired and have no intention to start again defending their contributions when they will be deleted no matter what.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Per%C3%B3n... [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive/2014-...
2014-06-17 10:31 GMT-04:00 Fæ faewik@gmail.com:
On 17/06/2014, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
with final consensus that "URAA cannot be used as the sole reason for deletion"...
This is a selective quote, missing the explicit caveat that: "Deleted files can be restored after a discussion in COM:UDR."
If the process is being followed correctly, there should be an established specific consensus via an undeletion request, *before* an administrator action can or should be taken.
Links:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_im... 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Undeletion_requests/Current_reque...
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