[Commons-l] Stats on deletion

Thu Aug 10 10:35:57 UTC 2006

Patrick-Emil Zörner wrote:
> --- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" <alphasigmax at gmail.com> schrieb:
>> The stupid German laws might apply to the Toolserver which is hosted
>> by
>> Wikimedia DE, but they do NOT apply to Commons, which is hosted in
>> Florida.
> 
> Apart from the fact that if German laws are stupid or not you are
> totally beside the point. BTW your laws in your country are stupid too
> (just to prove the point that arguments like that are useless).
> 
> I noticed that if people point out legal infringements people argue
> 1) The uploader is liable
> 2) The servers are in Florida
> They choose what suits them best.
> 
> Fact is that if you do not care about showing your ass in public there
> are still people that do. I see no argument for not respecting other
> peoples behaviour in the internet/in public. Give an argument why
> these statistical evaluations are so important for the project and why
> we can not do without. Otherwise I would like to see the page deleted.
> 

In accordance with Sharia law (in effect in Iran, Syria, Saudia Arabia
etc.) I will start deleting all images which portray people.

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