On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
They screwed up on blocking the image, although that could be accidental and caused by another nonstandard practice of Wikipedia -
having
text pages that end with .jpg.
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It's simply a question of technical competence: To someone with reasonable technical competence the Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg page is very clearly not the image itself (as it has all that user interface stuff on it). I don't doubt that it's an error, but it's one they've been informed of since Sunday (and yes, they had a human addressing this on Sunday) and has not been resolved.
Right now the whole thing is under review. I'd imagine they're not extending the block to new domain names for exactly this reason, and I wouldn't be surprised if a whole lot more gets blocked *if* their review reiterates their original decision.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
It's unclear to me how widespread the distribution of this album cover is
in
the UK. Amazon UK doesn't seem to have it. Just how easy is it to find?
Amazon.co.uk did until Monday morning. And we have reports of it being in high street record shops. It's also widely available on the internet in general.
I'll hold off on speculating on *why* Amazon UK took it down (has Amazon US done so as well?). But good for them that they did so.