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(a)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.