On 4/8/12 2:47 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
In my experience this is a prevalent problem on Commons; whether over issues of personality rights or copyright. Users are fairly dismissive of things that should throw up huge red flags.
Image was quite legitimately questioned; the Flickr image notes are quite a red flag suggesting that it might be a problem. Trivial work with Tineye and Archive.org showed it is a clear copyvio.
It should be quite easy to get them deleted when there's a copyvio source. The problem is when you 'feel' that the image is a copyvio, yet you can't find a source for that.
On 09/04/12 03:57, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Yes, there are a number of regulars at Commons:Deletion requests who will vote "Keep" on any Flickr-validated images regardless of evidence of copyright violation (or other policy problems). Unfortunately, this problem is about to get worse as we're probably going to be adding automatic Flickr transfer to the Upload Wizard this summer. I'm not sure what the solution to this is, other than getting more smart people to be Commons admins.
Ryan Kaldari
I'd go for an automatic bot / server process messaging them on flickr thanking for posting the photo with a free license and how they can be used now on Wikimedia Commons. That won't obviously avoid blatnant flickrwashing, but if the license was indeed wrongly set, any issues should arise soon enough, when it isn't so bad to "lose" the images. And if they appear back 2 years later, with infringiment claims, we can point to how we notified them, and they ignored for so long, as an indicator of probable abuse of the rules.