[Commons-l] intelligence in flagging

Mon Jul 10 23:39:30 UTC 2006

I dont know about all that. All I advocate is a basic bonehead level reading of whats
posted with the image. 
It would appear that some are using bots to find and autopost flags and comments. Dunno
if thats as useful.

S

--- peter green <plugwash at P10Link.net> wrote:

> on a related note admins (who i suspect are the bulk of this lists members)
> should remember that anyone can throw any tag they like onto a page. When
> deleting an image because of a tag imo an admin should at MINIMUM.
> 
> 1: follow any links on the page (especially ones within wikimedia) looking
> for obvious license/source information
> 2: check the page history (in case the source/license info was removed by
> vandals)
> 3: check that (if applicable) the correct steps to notify the uploader (as
> mentioned in the no source/license tags) were actually carried out (btw do
> you think we should change the policies to require notifying users on what
> appears to be thier primary wiki as well as on commons, i know i only log
> into commons occasionally atm because i'm not actively involved in any
> goings on there since the really unused list became unusable). If they
> weren't notified then the most reasonable course of action is probablly to
> notify them and reset the clock).
> 4: perform a check usage (we really need a proper check usage tool that
> checks all wikis without causing huge server load) and deal with (at least
> remove and if possible replace) any usage of the image.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: commons-l-bounces at wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:commons-l-bounces at wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of stevertigo
> > Sent: 10 July 2006 22:33
> > To: commons-l at wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Commons-l] intelligence in flagging
> >
> >
> > I just logged in to commons, and found a note reporting a problem with
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bush_War_Budget_2003-crop.jpg
> >
> > This, as noted in the text, is a crop of
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bush_War_Budget_2003.jpg
> > which is found to be
> > public domain.
> >
> > Those paying close attention will note that the cropped image
> > also has special code in
> > the title, ("-crop") indicating that its a crop of another image.
> > Nevertheless the
> > image got flagged.
> >
> > This presents itself as a problem as Ive noticed a certain
> > automation, and sadly a lack
> > of intelligence,
> > in flagging particular images. A more productive usage of time
> > would be to simply
> > reference the
> > given link, and add the appropriate information.
> >
> > Stevertigo
> >
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