Having to delete things will be an ongoing problem because adding things
is quite easy to do, so inevitably stuff that is not suitable will
always be present and eventually put up for deletion. The old
deletionist vs inclusionist and open vs restricted access arguments some
into play.
Alan
On 6/08/2013 7:11 p.m., WereSpielChequers wrote:
Suggested Fix 3, this is a problem of deletionism, and the best way to deal
with delietionism is to stop deleting things and seek alternate solutions.
In this case Commons deletion discussions need a "return to source Wiki"
option as opposed to deletion of files migrated from other wikis. And those
versions of Wikipedia that allow "Fair Use" need to think about importing
files from each other, or even looking for files on more than one other
wiki - first look on Commons and then look on those wikipedia that have the
same fair use policy. But if Commons were to close more deletion debates as
"it may be allowed there but not here so move it back" then most of the
problem would go away.
The corollary of this and the obvious fourth option is to stop accepting
"fair use" images and only host ones that are genuinely freely licensed
Jonathan
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