On 29/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I just sort of envisaged a "is this image
fair use? No? [[Move it to
Commons]]!" kind of link appearing on images in the various
Wikipedias. It doesn't seem like something that should be inherently
restricted, either, since the action can be carried out manually by
anyone...
It doesn't need to be restricted, but it shouldn't be automatic. Many
images on local WPs have dodgy source/licensing and moving them to the
Commons is a very good opportunity to examine them at that point,
rather than just transfer them to Commons for the problem to come up
later.
I have some support for this position :) see
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2006-May/000222.html .
Suggestion:
1. Copy image to commons (using my tool of course;-) and add a
{{MovedToCommonsCheckPlease}} tag
2. Add {{NowCommons}} tag to the original image description
3. Delete image at the source wiki once the MovedToCommonsCheckPlease
tag has been removed on commons
Magnus