[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sat May 8 23:40:29 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/5/8 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Well.. maybe... but bear in mind that it is really hard to discuss the
> >> pictures you can't see, and commons-delinker bot actions are really
> >> difficuilt to revert.
> >
> >
> > So fix commons-delinker.  Or shut it off altogether.
>
> Or shut off the Commons. That would be the ultimate solution :-)
>

Huh?  What would that solve?


> Shuting down commons-delinker won't much help, as deleting the picture
> on Commons leave the red links on all those projects which were using
> the picutre.


OMG.  Red links would indicate to a human that there was a problem which
needed to be solved.  Then that human could go about solving the problem
(which very well may involve more than just delinking the image).

And deletions are easily reversible.



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