Wednesday, July 27, 2022

I just don't like it!

"Deletion requests are not the place to attempt to change Commons policy, nor may requests be made simply to make a point. Any such requests may be speedily closed. Please use the Village Pump or the policy talk page if you wish to propose a change in policy."

Commons is not censored.

Virtually every attempt to delete our artwork from Commons has been in direct violation of existing scope policies, particularly in cases where an image has been in heavy use across multiple projects. DRs are frequently posted by Wikipedians hoping to bypass all standard protocols. A typical example would be User:Furrykef, an anti-pron crusader who more or less barged onto COM:DEL demanding the removal of an image she found personally offensive:

"Creepy, creepy, creepy. Nipples are visible and the subtitle includes the word 小学生, meaning "grade schooler" (i.e., implying the subject is well underage). This image is probably illegal in many places. Finally, this image is used mainly in Wikipedia's "Censorship in Japan" article and doesn't actually depict typical Japanese censorship. What use is there for this image?"

Furrykef was basically told to stfu & gtfo that "creepy" wasn't a reason to delete anything; Commons was not censored, the file was in use, and if she didn't like it, she could go take a flying fuck at the moon. Furrykef whined that it wasn't fair the image was illegal in Utah before slinking away with her tail between her legs.

Rubin16 eventually closed the DR with the words "Kept: no valid reason for deletion." The image remained in use until 2022, when Zache's exclusionist circlejerk conspired to game the system and remove two dozen in-scope images.

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