On 6/30/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/06/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
If there is concern that people will see your mistakes and criticize you for them thats a social problem.
I'm talking about not storing information which crosses the borderline from needful retention to smelling off, to me.
If someone almost uploads something which would infringe copyright, but doesn't, do we *need* to keep it? I'm inclined to state not, unless it becomes a frequent occurrence. And who would have access to this information, and under what conditions and policies?
Eh, I see it the same as "If someone tags an image with {{forbiddenlicense}} and then changes it, why should we keep a record of their initial 'mistake'?"
The initial comment that started this subthread was justifyed with "If the user initially gets to a 'copyrighted' result and then backtracks and claims he took it, you'll know something's up.".
Any solution which could be equally used to teach a new uploader what lies to tell to keep his image kept really should write a record. Would you like to see some examples of deleted copyright violations on enwiki which would have been undetected if not for the ability to discover where an uploader has cycled through license options?
Perhaps an alternative would be a system which doesn't tell the user the results of their quiz until after the image is uploaded, then we have no situation where a change of mind before the upload results in a record.