Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Jiri Hofman
Very generally: It is quite complicated to keep an eye on all files comming into Wikipedia or Commons. No wonder admins delete those without _absolutely needed_ information provided by its uploader without further investigation. Notification of being doing it so is just enough. If one wants to car

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Waerth
Well with the way the Dutch moderators are they deserve this. The blocking moderator JacobH said on nl.wikipedia that I have: "threathened the blocking mod with violence" Which is pathetic as he has no proof and just ask the unblocking mod. This is LIBEL pure and simple. (http://nl.wikipedia.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Waerth
When I joined wikipedia 5 years ago we had something called ASSUME GOOD FAITH. That meant that you didn't nominate stuff for deletion first. You ASKED someone first! I have been on the projects for well over 5 years now, I have written over 1000 articles. People could ask first. How is the proj

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Huib Laurens
The blocking reason is a personal attack to the deleting admin (Not complete sure of that), but I understand that is solved now. Walter thank you very much for uploading those pictures! huib -- Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ster

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
In response to my own email, Google Translate gives me the impression that you were blocked for flipping out [1] and becoming horrendously uncivil [2] with your colleagues, in response to the deletion issue. *1: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.o

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Waerth wrote: > > Today 5 of the 19 pictures were put up for deletion ... and why > because I forgot to say they were CC-BY-SA like the other 14 anyone > with a bunch of brains would have asked me at my Talk page to add the > license or would have done i

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Waerth; What were the reasons given for the blocking? Also, I understand if you're upset and don't want to upload them any more, but if you like, send me the best several of the shots (with caption please) and I will upload them to English Wikipedia. -Dan On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Waerth

Re: [Foundation-l] Pictures of Bangkok riots

2009-04-14 Thread Waerth
And as a thank you for the pictures I am being blocked. Waerth > The 13th I took 70 pictures of the fight between the red shirts and the > army. I was in the first lines when the soldiers were shot at and > molotov cocktails were thrown. The 14th I took pictures of the situation > around govern