On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
The 2009 resolution on biographies of living people was about identifiable people, given they were the subject of a biography. This new 'media about living people' resolution doesn't make any such distinction for media, which I guess will result in lots of confusion about whether the scope includes images of unidentifiable people. It should, but ...
This resolution appears to be asking for verifiability regarding images of living people. We are going to need some clarity around what the board considers to be verifiability (how do we prove the photo was taken at a public event and it is real? etc), and whether that includes unidentifiable people.
"Ensuring that all projects in all languages that describe or show living people have policies in place calling for special attention to the principles of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;.."
Hi John,
I think this is an interesting point, but I'm not entirely sure I follow.... don't we always worry about verifiability for images? We certainly try to ensure that images are real and correctly identified and not in copyright, etc. If someone uploads a random photo of someone and says it's a picture of a celebrity, I feel like we [Commons editors] would check that out. Not so?
-- phoebe