On 11/28/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/28/05, Sam Korn <smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think what you are arguing is something
different to quite a lot of
others. They are saying why the policy was necessary. Your complaint
is actually that you weren't warned. I don't think anyone would
disagree that you should have been notified before the deletions took
place.
There were thousands of images (possibly tens of thousands) that
qualified for speedy deletion under the new policy. Issuing warnings
to the uploader of each such image would have interminably delayed the
cleanup, which was already well-overdue. Repeated public notices were
issued; we're sorry you missed them or did not realize they applied to
you.
Kelly
I fail to see the need to rush in this instance, though. I think a
better policy would have been to remove the images from the articles
first, then contact the uploaders, and then delete the images in round
two. At the most that would take twice as long, which wouldn't be so
bad, and more likely it would take less time than that.
But again, I don't see the rush to *delete* the images. It's not like
they posed a legitimate legal threat. Their threat was more to the
project, to the encyclopedia, and removing them from the articles (and
hey, if you really want, from the other pages too), removes that
threat.
In any case, the two images I had deleted without being warned were
tagged. One was tagged as GFDL, the other was tagged as public domain
as I got it from the VOANews website. I actually don't have any idea
why the second was removed. The reason given for deletion pointed to
a diff that didn't actually exist.
In case anyone cares, the latter image was [[Image:Tv MarkFelt 1jun05
150.jpg]]. It was displayed on
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-06-01-voa30.cfm and the actual
image is at
http://www.voanews.com/english/images/tv_MarkFelt_1jun05_150.jpg.
Ironically, it has actually been replaced by [[Image:W Mark Felt
screenshot.jpg]], which is clearly *not* a public domain or free image
at all.
Anthony