[Foundation-l] Muhammad
Wily D
wilydoppelganger at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:26:52 UTC 2008
Wikimedia Commons is a freely licensed media file repository (similar
to stock photography archives) targeted at other Wikimedia projects.
From
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22 PM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does commons exist?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM, White Cat <
> > wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Images will not be deleted from commons for religious reasons. That I
> > can
> > > guarantee. Their presentation on wikipedia can be avoided.
> > >
> > > We do not want galleries on wikipedia, that is what commons is for. This
> > > for
> > > example can be a valid compromise.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus shows a few examples,
> > > which
> > > I will now move to commons as per the above reason.
> > >
> > > - White Cat
> > >
> > >
> >
> > As might be expected, you were already reverted. An article on Wikipedia
> > discussing "Depictions of Jesus" is quite expected to contain examples of
> > depictions of Jesus. Please be flexible about these things. There is no
> > need to say X kind of content belongs only on Y site. The goal is to be
> > useful to readers.
> >
> > At the very least, moving any large chunk of content out of Wikipedia,
> > primarily because you don't like it there, is something that should be
> > discussed among the contributors to that page.
> >
> > -Robert Rohde
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