[Commons-l] Commons request for a delinker tool running in every wiki

Fri Sep 22 23:28:14 UTC 2006

On 9/22/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's something backwards about this - Commons was created as a
> service project for the wikis. But instead of saving deleted images to
> local wikis it goes and removes the references to the images?

The deleted files are by and large copyright violations.  Some of them
MAY be usable under fair use, but I don't think that's the job of the
person removing copyright violations to work out, is it?

-Matt