If by "antagonizing" you mean abide by the law and by "serve" you mean act on wishful thinking then... sure.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Yann Forget <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-06-21 2:27 GMT+05:30 Daniel Schwen <[email protected]>: >> I don't see notices sent to users on commons to vote on he.wp user >> topic bans or policies. So, really, classifying this as a war >> misrepresents the unilateral nature of the he.wp uprising against URAA >> compliance. > > Commons is here to serve Wikipedia projects, not to antagonize them, > like it is the case. > I think users of the Hebrew Wikipedia has the right to know and to say > what they think about what affects them. > > Yann > >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Yann Forget <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Suite of the drama. >>> >>> A request for a topic ban against LGA, who made these deletion >>> requests, was started by Hanay, a user from the Hebrew Wikipedia. >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:LGA >>> >>> Now she is blocked for one week for "canvassing", because she informed >>> the Hebrew Wikipedia of the request. >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Blocks_and_protections#Block_of_Hanay_for_cross-wiki_canvassing >>> >>> This affair is going to degenerate in a full war between Commons and >>> some Wikipedias, if a solution is not found. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Yann >>> >>> 2014-06-17 5:05 GMT+05:30 Yann Forget <[email protected]>: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Some Commons contributors like to ask impossible requirements, and >>>> threaten to delete files if these are not met. We have now a case of >>>> famous pictures from the government of Israel and Israel Defense >>>> Forces. >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Matanya#Files_and_pages_that_were_deleted_by_User:Fastily_that_I_am_aware_of_them >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Beba_Idelson_Ada_Maimon1952.jpg >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Abba_Hushi_1956.jpg >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Aharon_Meskin_-_Ben_Gurion_-_Israel_Prize1960.jpg >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Avraham_Shlonsky_1952.jpg >>>> >>>> These are famous and valuable pictures, including two featured >>>> pictures on the Hebrew Wikipedia. These files have already been >>>> deleted and restored 3 times. When the URAA issue was not convincing >>>> enough, a new reson for deletion was advanced: that publication >>>> details were not given. Anyone with 2 bits of common sense can >>>> understand that these famous pictures were published soon after they >>>> were taken. There is no reasonable doubt about that. In addition, >>>> publication is not a requirement for being in the public domain in >>>> Israel. >>>> >>>> After I restored these images, I was threatem by LGA, who is a >>>> delete-only account: >>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:Yann >>>> There, more contributors argue on this issue. >>>> >>>> By asking absurb requirements about publication details, these >>>> contributors threaten the project as a whole. If insisting, it will >>>> lead people to upload pictures like these locally instead of Commons. >>>> Then the idea of a central repository for all Wikimedia projects is >>>> gone. >>>> >>>> Instead of looking for a reason to destroy these files, they should >>>> try to find a reason to keep them. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Yann >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Commons-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Commons-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
