Yes, there are a number of regulars at Commons:Deletion requests who
will vote "Keep" on any Flickr-validated images regardless of evidence
of copyright violation (or other policy problems). Unfortunately, this
problem is about to get worse as we're probably going to be adding
automatic Flickr transfer to the Upload Wizard this summer. I'm not sure
what the solution to this is, other than getting more smart people to be
Commons admins.
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/8/12 2:47 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
In my experience this is a prevalent problem on Commons; whether over
issues of personality rights or copyright. Users are fairly dismissive
of things that should throw up huge red flags.
For example tonight I came across this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Rush_limbaugh.jpg Image
was quite legitimately questioned; the Flickr image notes are quite a
red flag suggesting that it might be a problem. Trivial work with
Tineye and Archive.org showed it is a clear copyvio.
But the original nominators comments were dismissed with apparently no
investigation.
Stuff like personality rights and copyright should be taken a lot more
seriously; with effort made to prove the lack of a problem, rather
than demand to have the issue presented on a plate (and then continue
to ignore it).
Tom
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