Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-16 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Rather than complaining to the process could you please for once think that this is your project too and everyone in this together? It is not my project. Like many other people, I am forced to use it as a common image repository, even though I emphatically do not want to. As you probably know, b

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-16 Thread Nahid Sultan
Though it seems a bit odd but on a commons perspective it is also a normal procedure. Commons has a huge issue with people finding images online and then uploading them as their own work, so regular contributors on commons can sometimes be overzealous in making sure that people actually have the

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM photos are deleted on Commons

2016-09-16 Thread Alexander Tsirlin
Now it is not only about Freedom of Panorama and non-free images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_VekaSpb Here, one Commons user nominates a bunch of excellent photos for deletion after he sees that the user name does not match the name in EXIF, ev