On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:54 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> The 2009 resolution on biographies of living people was about > identifiable people, given they were the subject of a biography. This > new 'media about living people' resolution doesn't make any such > distinction for media, which I guess will result in lots of confusion > about whether the scope includes images of unidentifiable people. It > should, but ... > > This resolution appears to be asking for verifiability regarding > images of living people. We are going to need some clarity around > what the board considers to be verifiability (how do we prove the > photo was taken at a public event and it is real? etc), and whether > that includes unidentifiable people. > > "Ensuring that all projects in all languages that describe or show > living people have policies in place calling for special attention to > the principles of neutrality and verifiability in those articles;.." > Hi John, I think this is an interesting point, but I'm not entirely sure I follow.... don't we always worry about verifiability for images? We certainly try to ensure that images are real and correctly identified and not in copyright, etc. If someone uploads a random photo of someone and says it's a picture of a celebrity, I feel like we [Commons editors] would check that out. Not so? -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
