Does it being on osm have enough justification for them to keep it though?
"it's not a wikimedia project, so it doesn't matter to us if it's linked on
osm or not"



On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:39, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 10:06, Thibault Molleman <
> thibaultmolle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, I feel like there are certain images that might get deleted from
>> Commons just because they don't "contribute to wikipedia articles".
>>
>
> The commons isn't quite that arbitrary.  They allow images which are of
> interest, but "of interest" is rather arbitrary.  Generally, though, images
> used by wikipedia itself are not candidates for deletion.
>
> So what is needed is a bot of some sort that trawls the OSM database (which
> wikipedia has a copy of to create its own maps) to look for
> wikimedia_commons
> tags and somehow flags relevant images as being used on OSM.
>
> --
> Paul
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