[Commons-l] intelligence in flagging

Tue Jul 11 18:15:44 UTC 2006

These two points seem very clear now that you mention them. I can't really
see a compromise between my proposal and the situations you mention. Such is
brainstorming!

On 11/07/06, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
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