On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Many images on Wikipedia have been taken without the subject's genuine > consent. So surely that isn't the issue.
Many are transferred to Commons from Flickr without the uploader's consent which, in the case of sexually explicit photos taken in a private location, should always be sought before doing the transfer. Unfortunately, that's another rule more honoured in the breach than in the observance on Commons. (Note that even if the image doesn't show a face, the Commons page always includes a link to the person's Flickr stream, thus identifying them.) Incidentally, a Commons copyright specialist is currently being banned for nominating admins' copyright violations for deletion, even though the vast majority of his deletions have always turned out to be correct ... the administrators are feeling "harassed" by having their copyright violations nominated and say he's doing it because he doesn't like them, and that it's bad for community relations. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems/Pieter_Kuiper You couldn't make this stuff up. Not unless you were William Golding, that is. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
