[Gendergap] Niqab

2012-03-25 Thread Andreas Kolbe
This edit to the article on the niqab worn by Muslim women

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niq%C4%81bdiff=482813756oldid=481659451

was pointed out on the Wikipediocracy forum the other day (
http://www.wikipediocracy.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8t=122; I'm a mod
there).

The edit has stood for five days now. The same image was also inserted in a
bunch of other Wikipedias (and may still be present in them).

Interestingly, in the German Wikipedia, it was stopped by the pending
changes function. (I've reverted it in the German Wikipedia.)

Andreas
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Re: [Gendergap] Niqab

2012-03-25 Thread Risker
Of note, I question the copyright status of this (and other) images.  In
particular, there's no evidence at all that the photo was taken in the
1910s, and there is the fact that the copyright and appropriateness of
these images is already in question when one looks at the website referred
to as the source of the image.

Of course, I don't go near Commons if I can avoid it - and I usually can -
so I'm not going to take up this fight.  However, if *I* can see a problem
with an image copyright, there's probably a problem.

Risker/Anne

(And thanks to Andreas and whomever else removed the images from other
projects.)

On 25 March 2012 09:38, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:

 This edit to the article on the niqab worn by Muslim women


 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niq%C4%81bdiff=482813756oldid=481659451

 was pointed out on the Wikipediocracy forum the other day (
 http://www.wikipediocracy.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8t=122; I'm a mod
 there).

 The edit has stood for five days now. The same image was also inserted in
 a bunch of other Wikipedias (and may still be present in them).

 Interestingly, in the German Wikipedia, it was stopped by the pending
 changes function. (I've reverted it in the German Wikipedia.)

 Andreas

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