[WikiEN-l] Deletion of my images

Mon Mar 7 06:23:55 UTC 2005

I suspect there was an administrative error here, and anthere has
complained to Quadell directly about this.

Hopefully this will gets sorted out to everyone's satisfaction.

Arno
----- Original Message -----
From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Deletion of my images
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:03:44 +0100

> 
> 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
> 
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