On 24/08/07, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
geni wrote:
The answer to "Images get moved to Commons
without the correct
attribution and history being kept." is unhelpful. You have people in
effect mass uploading copyvios and you suggest asking them to take
more care?
The funny thing is that they're opposing to a bot uploading to commons
because "Images get moved to Commons without the correct attribution",
when bots are those who keep things better. If it's not done with a
bot, or commonshelper, etc. it will likely end up commonised by some
random guy which only wants the image on his article and is more likely
to get it wrong.
The moral: if you want to be sure your images are well-uploaded on
commons, upload them yourself.
What Platonides said.
Geni, what do you think a more useful answer is? I could write
something that's not true, but much more soothing. Isn't it kind of
the same to objecting of Wikipedia "someone copied text from my
website without my permission"? We can fix things when we know about
them, but we can hardly promise "all edits will be reviewed, all
mistakes will be corrected, within X time of being made."
cheers
Brianna
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