[WikiEN-l] Deletion of my images

Mon Mar 7 05:03:44 UTC 2005

For the second time this month, one of my images was deleted on the 
english wikipedia.

I was not warned at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anthere/PictInsectes&diff=0&oldid=10140585

I'll be frank, I AM PISSED OFF.

It is written clearly on my talk page, and my user page that all my 
images are gfdl. All my insects pictures listed on my user subpage are 
labelled, but this one.

Just as I already said on the pump less than 2 weeks ago, I think it is 
really pure disrespect to delete an image without asking the author, and 
then only AFTER deletion, to go on this user subpage to remove the link 
to the deleted image. If there is time to go on my user subpage to 
remove a link, then there is time to drop by my user talk page and talk 
to me. Of there is time to read the mention on my user and user talk 
page and to read my warning about the status of my images and to update 
the image status.

I am sorry, but I really find this of the latest rudeness.

 From now quite far away, as I have no more time to edit the english 
wikipedia, I have the horrible feeling the english wikipedia has become 
a very very cold place, where there is no respect for editors except 
those well known possibly. If feels like if one is not among the major 
editors, he does not count, and his feelings are not important at all. 
It looks like a machine. An automate. Not a great human construction.

We are all here because we believe in what we do, but what we do is only 
good because we do it together and because we trust each other.

Well, at least, some people trust other people. And if it is not 
possible to trust someone who spent already 3 years on wikipedia, I 
wonder how newbies are treated.

In case you feel like telling me "yeah, but this is just one case you 
know, not everybody does that", I will then ask why Quadell is trusted 
to delete images. I do not trust him to do so. Not because he does not 
do this according to rules, but because he does not do this while taking 
human feelings into account. And wiki only works thanks to human power.

Anthere