[Commons-l] intelligence in flagging

Tue Jul 11 18:13:17 UTC 2006

>It does seem a little silly that people can upload images without a license tag. 
>This functionality could easily be added - perhaps any upload without a tag 
>selected from the drop down or an appropriate template in the summary should 
>not be able to be uploaded. 
at first that sounds like a nice idea but it has two problems.

1: very often for large groups of images from the same (particularlly PD) source a new tag is created both to save the uploader time and to provide a usefull sorting of such images. Any mechanism like this would put a lot of beuracry in the 

2: we will most likely end up with a lot of people picking tags at random which is a much harder behaviour to deal with than people not tagging at all.