[Commons-l] intelligence in flagging

Tue Jul 11 17:49:40 UTC 2006

On 7/11/06, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On a more general note: in my opinion an uploader is ALWAYS responsible for
> correct and complete license and source information. It is not a duty for an
> admin to go and get it when either is missing, nor should the Commons admin
> chase al around the Wikimedia landscape to notify an uploader on his home
> wiki(s).
>
> It is the responsibility of admins to ensure no policy violations occur, to
> notify users of possible violations and/or missing information and educate
> users where needed.
>
> Requiring admins to follow each and every link in search for information
> regarding an image is definately not the way to go, in my opinion.
>
In my opinion the way to go would be to use common sense.  If an image
description says it's a crop of another image, looking at that image
description would be a common sense thing to do.

Of course, if common sense isn't required, and any image without a tag
is immediately deletable without any further checks, then images
shouldn't be allowed to be uploaded without tags in the first place.

Anthony