[Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

[Aaron Adrignola]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Cecil <cecilatwp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.
> Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the
> restriction that a file has to be educational.
>

Related to another comment posted earlier, this section [1] also notes that
images in use by projects are considered automatically to be useful for an
educational purpose, but those that are not and which are judged to be not
educational can be deleted.

I've successfully nominated several hundred personal images of users for
deletion using this criterion, as they were not in use.

The proper procedure if this image is disliked would be to see if it falls
within one of the examples [2] of items that would be out of scope if
unused.  It can then be nominated for deletion.

However, as already seen, whether an unused image is educational is subject
to quite a bit of debate.


[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#File_in_use_in_another_Wikimedia_project

[2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope#Examples
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