Well I am not an admin, but as on all other projects,
you must play by the
rules. I noticed the deletion notice for your letter claimed it was a
"derivative work", implying that the file was uploaded as artwork. It
either included a logo letterhead that has not previously been uploaded
(see [1]) or it needed the PD-text license (see [2]) instead of whatever
the default uploader slaps on (probably "own work").
[1]
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Itzik Edri <itzik(a)infra.co.il> wrote:
The story continues.
WMIL uploaded a letter from the Ministry of Justice, addressed to the
Commons Community, which confirm that the government don't have interest on
this photos. And not surprising, he was deleted from Commoms by the same
person who deleted all the photos so far:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ministry_of_Justice%27s_of_Israel_r…
Hard not to feel that the reason to this massive deletions and this kind of
behavior does not cross the boundaries of URAA enforcement to probably more
personal views...
The original letter can be found on Hebrew Wikipedia:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:%D7%AA%D7%92%D7%95%D…
Itzik
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ministry_of_Justice%27s_of_Israel_r…
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Yann Forget <yannfo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and
threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of
famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense
Forces.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_w…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Beba_Idel…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Abba_Hush…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aharon_Me…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Avraham_S…
>
> These are famous and valuable pictures, including two featured
> pictures on the Hebrew Wikipedia. These files have already been
> deleted and restored 3 times. When the URAA issue was not convincing
> enough, a new reson for deletion was advanced: that publication
> details were not given. Anyone with 2 bits of common sense can
> understand that these famous pictures were published soon after they
> were taken. There is no reasonable doubt about that. In addition,
> publication is not a requirement for being in the public domain in
> Israel.
>
> After I restored these images, I was threatem by LGA, who is a
> delete-only account:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Us…
There, more contributors argue on this issue.
By asking absurb requirements about publication details, these
contributors threaten the project as a whole. If insisting, it will
lead people to upload pictures like these locally instead of Commons.
Then the idea of a central repository for all Wikimedia projects is
gone.
Instead of looking for a reason to destroy these files, they should
try to find a reason to keep them.
Regards,
Yann
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