On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They screwed up on blocking the image, although that could be > > accidental and caused by another nonstandard practice of Wikipedia - > having > > text pages that end with .jpg. > [snip] > > It's simply a question of technical competence: To someone with > reasonable technical competence the Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg page is > very clearly not the image itself (as it has all that user interface > stuff on it). I don't doubt that it's an error, but it's one they've > been informed of since Sunday (and yes, they had a human addressing > this on Sunday) and has not been resolved. > Right now the whole thing is under review. I'd imagine they're not extending the block to new domain names for exactly this reason, and I wouldn't be surprised if a whole lot more gets blocked *if* their review reiterates their original decision. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's unclear to me how widespread the distribution of this album cover is > in > > the UK. Amazon UK doesn't seem to have it. Just how easy is it to find? > > Amazon.co.uk did until Monday morning. And we have reports of it being > in high street record shops. It's also widely available on the > internet in general. I'll hold off on speculating on *why* Amazon UK took it down (has Amazon US done so as well?). But good for them that they did so. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
