[Commons-l] intelligence in flagging

Wed Jul 12 00:32:29 UTC 2006

On 7/11/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/07/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It would be nice to still allow people to select "I don't know what the
> > license is" so that those with more experience can help (particularly easy
> > for us in the case of old photographs).
>
> 1 in maybe 100 would be such nice cases, the other 99 would be
> explaining that random stuff off the web is copyrighted. I would
> prefer people find out the license BEFORE uploading. It would save a
> lot of work. We have a [[commons:Help desk|]] for this purpose.
>
Using [[commons:Help desk]] certainly isn't very easy either, though.
And clicking the delete button isn't very much work.

It would be nice if there was some temporary place that people could
upload images which they weren't really sure about.  It could be kept
separate from the other images so articles couldn't include them.  Of
course getting the copyright paranoid group to agree to this is
probably impossible.

Anthony