On 06/04/12 10:22, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
This is generally a straightforward decision per Commons:Photographs of identifiable people. If the photos were taken in a private place, consent is required. If the photos were taken in a public place, consent is not required (with exceptions for some countries). What was the justification for not following the Photographs of identifiable people guideline?
I looked at the deletion discussions. It looked to me like personality rights were never seriously considered.
The first three deletion requests were made anonymously, and the whole of the request was just "Copyrights!" The fourth and fifth deletion requests were closed by admins who gave no indication that they had read the discussion on personality rights or the OTRS tickets, they just said "kept per the other DRs".
Maybe if the requester knew how Commons worked, they wouldn't have submitted deletion requests that looked so trollish. If they only sent OTRS tickets and never tried a deletion request, the images probably would have been deleted by now.
-- Tim Starling