[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Yoni Weiden]

2007/12/5, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
> On 05/12/2007, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I do not consider myself a commons member (and I doubt if they do).
>

Ha! What a joke! When I asked some Wikipedian to come and vote on something,
the commons community thought this was rude of me. Service or not - we don't
have a voice there. But that a diff story.
Yoni Weiden


2007/12/5, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>
> On 05/12/2007, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I do not consider myself a commons member (and I doubt if they do).
>
>
> Every Foundation wiki user arguably has an interest, since it is a service
> wiki.
>
>
> > With my
> > previous encounters with the deletion process I found it insufficient.
> Also,
> > I do not wish to promote a community discussion about these images. I
> know
> > that the foundation can call Veto on this, and this is why I am
> requesting
> > this. If the Israeli press gets hold of this, it can seriously damage
> > Wikimedia's reputation and our Hebrew Wikipedia. People get easily
> offended
> > in such cases. I am asking the Foundation to prevent being on the major
> news
> > channels in this bad light. I do not need to remind you what happened in
> > Denmark and the Muslim cartoons - It was a world wide fiasco.
>
>
> The Foundation has an obvious wish not to appear to exercise editorial
> control, but obviously there's speedy deletion criteria for Commons as
> well. And it looks like Anthere exercised those ...
>
> With this sort of thing ("deletion reason: what is this sh*t, kill
> it"), the wiki communities will pretty much always be a reasonable
> first place to approach.
>
>
> - d.
>
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