[WikiEN-l] [Wikipedia-l] Egregiously missing option in Upload dialog

[geni]

2009/9/15 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
> Timwi -
>
> That is indeed pretty egregious.  I use that dialog all the time, but
> usually upload my own images and so didn't really attend to whether
> the other options are complete.
>
> I agree that this should be fixed, and filed a bug:
>  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20648
>
> (I thought there would be one already but couldn't find it; please dup
> it if necessary)
>
> SJ

It's not a mediawiki issue. Commons could change this if it wanted. In
the overwelming majority of cases releases by third parties are
invalid or doin't mean what the uploader claims they mean. As a result
such releases need to go via OTRS.

-- 
geni