On 5/16/2011 11:19 AM, Cecil wrote:

2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe <jayen466@yahoo.com>

There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat Commons as a gallery for non-notable art.

It's an educational project, not a vehicle for self-promotion.

A.

Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.
Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the restriction that a file has to be educational.

I guess I have misunderstood the welcome page of Commons for years now:

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.

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