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Hello Bishaka, Thank you for your response to my mail. The discussion is still going on. But the dice is loaded in favor of deletion. There are certain points which were raised in the discussion. Wikipedia is paranoid about Copyright. Of course this is a result of the U.S law and any number of cases. There was a time when any image available on the web was accptable to Wikippedia. I think they had some problems then. Of course there are some people who take delight in Deletion. Kind of a sadism. <<So to keep such images in Commons, either Indian government or Commons needs to have a policy addressing all pictures for which original authorship is unknown, or at the least about paintings of God which is widely available. Until then, we can either assume good faith and keep this image or start a new mass DR for all the images in the category Hindu deities.>> Indian government will not do anything. But Wiki Commons can do something. Another thing which is surprising is there is no assumption of Good faith. I am a volunteer. How do I benefit by the uploading of the image? Actually most volunteers like me do end up by spending money, because my internet connection is not free. I do not use an internet connection provided by any organization. This atitude of "there is no assumption of Good faith" will put off many people. I can not imagine anybody from India suing Wikipedia over an obscure painting in a temple. Now they are quoting the U.K law on which the Indian law is modelled to say that Wall paintings are not covered. This would effectively stop upload of many of the paintings in temples. But in India in a public temple, the installed idol itself is held to be the temple’s legal owner, and the beneficiaries—those to whom the endowment is dedicated --—are the general public. Does this change the position? I wonder. I have posted this. I am having another problem with this image. There is one person called Pebble101 who is bent on deleting this image from the article.He deleteds it time and again for no reason. He could be the author of the last unsigned remark on the deletion page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraswati&action=history The problem is there is nothing I can do. When I had such problems earlier I was asked to go for Arbitration. I thought I had to share my concerns with some one. Thank you. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God

The follow-up mail to the previous one. Again please cc him on replies. Bishakha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sankar Viswanathan &lt;sankarrukku(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg To: Bishakha Datta &lt;bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com&gt; Thank you, Bishaka. Posting to the India list would be ideal. But I do not know how to do it. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l