On 22/12/06, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
Well, in that case it would be very dangerous if the import option allowed importers to delete from the source wiki, and single-user sign-on does not
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The problem is that someone took the "let's support true image importing" ball and ran with it, off to the "ooh, let's enable moving" camp.
I am of the opinion that while making the import process easier for Commons admins is going to end up being more or less essential, it is just as essential that a human has the final say over whether or not the image is deleted from the source wiki.
There are cases where you wouldn't want to be performing a *move*, anyway; the import process as it stands implies copying, rather than moving, and that is I how I think it should remain.
Rob Church