I don't think I understand your point since there is absolutely no reason for people to be uploading new images with deprecated licence tags. "Unknown" is not an option. If you don't know the licence, simply do not upload it. Such images will be deleted via the new process at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images
The new upload form will not apply to existing images. Those are being dealt with via the tagging drive at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yann/Untagged_Images
Angela.
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:13:57 +0200, Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote:
May I STRONGLY suggest that we include ALL the other depreciated image tags as well?
Rationale: Migrating from the current technical possibility not to include ANY tag/description while uploading directly to the limited choice of tags as per the below mockup link would be too big of a change for many users, who will feel--wrong as they might be--that their images "have to be included". This will lead to many folks picking "unknown/don't know" (unbekannt/weiss nicht) -- and practically having no license tags is ACUTELY worse than having depreciated license tags. We should have MORE metadata, not less of it. Having "depreciated license"-images in there (marked as depreciated) is A LOT better because we can always deal with these pics and/or that entire category later and we'll at least know where things are at as regards these pics. We WON'T know that in case of "unknown/don't know" -- these would just be a wild heap of wildly unknown stuff, making it acutely harder to deal with in the future.