[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Discussion about deletion of a photo

Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 18:17:33 UTC 2011


Am forwarding this to the list with Sankar's permission; please cc him on
related mail, since he is not on the list. Also forwarding next related one.

Bishakha

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From: Sankar Viswanathan <sankarrukku at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:54 PM
Subject: Discussion about deletion of a photo
To: Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>


Hello Bishakha,

I am facing a problem. Please go through this discussion.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg

Unfortunately this would mean that we can not upload the photograph of any
old Indian painting or sculpture to Wiki Commons.  Most of the photographs
existing now would have to be deleted.
This will only mean that the articles in Wikipedia would be poorer in
content. Being Paranoid about copyright is not the way to improve Wikipedia.
The most affected would be articles about Hinduism, for which even now there
are very few takers.

I was wondering whether you could help.

Thank you,

Sankar

Service to Humanity is Service to God
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