[WikiEN-l] Lolicon picture IfD result (was:deletion)

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

  Molu Bosu Palit,

  Just to keep things clear... the latest IfD on that image wasn't closed when
Sam Korn deleted it.  I closed that day's IfD and would certainly have deleted
the image, for no other reason than if an editor goes to the trouble of jumping
through all of the hoops involved in listing a replacable image on IfD that is a
copyright infringement, I'm pretty much guaranteed to delete it.

  This shouldn't be read as my offering any comment on the content of the image.
 One should certainly read it as an encouragement to have an ironclad "fair use"
rationale on any unfree image that one wants to keep that has been nominated to
IfD.

  Given that it certainly worked out well for me that Sam Korn speedied it, as
otherwise I'd be the target of some of this grieving over an image no
Wikipedian actually owned, I thought I might point out that you're operating
from an incorrect assumption here.

                           Jkelly




Quoting Molu Bosu Palit <loom91 at yahoo.com>:


>   Your rationale for deleting the image without consensus (that the IfD had
> failed to delete the image) is very strange, surely that's why the IfD is
> there for, to prevent the deletion of images when Wikipedia editors don't
> want to delete the image? "I will let the IfD delete images when I want them
> deleted but when it keeps images I want to be deleted then I'm just going to
> go ahead and delete them": doesn't this sound wrong to anyone?

>