[Foundation-l] Permanent deletion (tangent to the national portrait gallery thing)

[private musings]

It's heartening to hear that the foundation has zapped images in the past -
presumably because they were potentially illegal?

I'm also heartened by the fact that this isn't actually a huge problem at
the moment, so can be managed on a case by case basis - is there a good way
of letting someone appropriate know about an image which is rather close to
the line? (the follow on from this, of course, is to ask whether or not
there's any established policy or practice in this area, and whether or not
it 'works' enough of the time?)

I'd be happier still if the image I linked to in my previous post was
permanently deleted, which by my judgment would be the best outcome.

cheers,

Peter,
PM.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM, private musings<thepmaccount at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > I
> > consider the fact that I can write 'Commons administrators will be able
> to
> > see an image here' to be the heart of the problem! I hope the foundation
> > might consider a software tweak of some sort to allow for permanent
> deletion
> [snip]
>
> Permanent actions are antithetical to the notion of liberal access. We
> can be reasonably liberal with our trust because there is so little
> that can't be undone.
>
> Images with significant legal issues are rare enough that they can be
> easily handled as exceptions without changing the software at all.
> The foundation is perfectly capable of fully deleting images and has
> done so in the past.
>
> I don't see that any change is required.
>
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