On 12/11/11 15:11, William Allen Simpson wrote:
There are a number of obvious technical issues. YouTube and others have had to handle this, it's time for us.
- DMCA doesn't require a takedown until there's been a complaint. We
really shouldn't allow deletion until there's been an actual complaint. We need technical means for recording official notices and appeals. Informal opinions of ill-informed volunteers aren't helpful.
We have higher standards than that.
- Fast scripting and insufficient notice lead to flapping of images,
and confusion by the owners of the documents (and the editors of articles, as 2 days is much *much* too short for most of us). We need something to enforce review times.
Yes, deleting on 2 days was too fast, given that you had concerns over it. That's also the reason it was restored by Odder :)
- Folks in other industries aren't monitoring Talk pages and have no
idea or sufficient notice that their photos are being deleted. The Talk mechanism is really not a good method for anybody other than very active wikipedians. We need better email and other social notices.
See my other reply about email notification.
- We really don't have a method to "prove" that a username is actually
under control of the public figure. Hard to do. Needs discussion.
We have OTRS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS
- We probably could use some kind of comparison utility to help
confirm/deny a photo or article is derived from another source.
If there's a better place to discuss this, please indicate.
That's not a problem in this case, as the photo /was/ in facebook. The problem was identifying the prior one.