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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sankar Viswanathan</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sankarrukku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarrukku@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:54 PM<br>Subject: Discussion about deletion of a photo<br>To: Bishakha Datta &lt;<a href="mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com" target="_blank">bishakhadatta@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
Hello Bishakha,<div>
<br></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">I am facing a problem. Please go through this discussion.</span></font>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg</a></span></font></div>


<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Unfortunately this would mean that we can not upload the photograph of any old Indian painting or sculpture to Wiki Commons.  Most of the photographs existing now would have to be deleted.</span></font></div>


<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">This will only mean that the articles in Wikipedia would be poorer in content. Being Paranoid about copyright is not the way to improve Wikipedia. The most affected would be articles about Hinduism, for which even now there are very few takers.</span></font></div>


<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">I was wondering whether you could help.</span></font></div>


<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Thank you,</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br clear="all"></span></font>Sankar <br><br>Service to Humanity is Service to God<br>
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