The OP is misleading. The issue is not with Commons at all, but with OTRS. As far as I know, Commons never, ever, deleted a file which was in use in any Wikimedia project, with the notable expectation of copyvios. Otherwise, use in *any* wikimedia project = on scope for Commons.
Apparently some OTRS volunteers follow some outdated procedures - including that one related to selfies, which was mentioned - but that is a problem exclusively with OTRS. I'm part of that team, and I always had the freedom to decide which looked like a genuine selfie, and which was problematic at that (e.g., with a copyright notice at the metadata). And, as far as I know, anyone willing to help fixing those problems at OTRS is very much welcome there. When the volunteers are very few, and the ones complaining do not volunteer themselves, it only adds up to the pressure on the few existing volunteers, making everything worse. Best, Paulo Peter Southwood <[email protected]> escreveu no dia quarta, 26/02/2020 à(s) 06:04: > This does seem unreasonable. Do they have an explanation at Commons? > This is happening without standardising in one label Wikipedia, so it is > jumping to quite a conclusion to assume that the issue is related. > For the record, I am also opposed to rebranding to Wikipedia, but I do not > think this issue is necessarily related. > Cheers, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gerard Meijssen > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:10 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Why renaming to Wikipedia will wreak havoc on other > projects > > Hoi, > Apparantly at Commons they have standardised themselves to only support > Wikipedia. > > At Wikidata we have people who are notable according to our standards. We > are actively asking them for images to illustrate our information. The best > suggestion we get is: do not ask for images because they are deleted at > Commons. > > When this is what awaits us when we standardise on one label Wikipedia, it > is obvious that this is the worst scenario for the "other" projects. The > projects who operate to different standards who have notability criteria > different from English Wikipedia. > Thanks, > GerardM > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
