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User:Slowking4/Image Rescue Squadron

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Sitrep

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Images that add to the quality of wikipedia are being deleted daily.

Back in 2004 to 2008, many people uploaded their photos to en:wikipedia; being young and inexperienced, many tags were wrong.
In 2009, these were migrated to commons, and the tags were not fixed.
The images were incorporated into articles.
Copyright law is arcane and widely misunderstood; many new editors add images with the wrong tags, or in commons, when they could stand in en:wikipedia with a fair use rationale.
The file upload process is inherently flawed and doesn't offer enough options to properly tag images. <Buffs (talk) 19:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)>

Now, these images are being deleted for a variety of licensing issues.

The prevailing attitude is: delete it, it's not my job to fix it.

Philosophy

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Images are a key quality factor adding to wikipedia. Deleting images that add to the quality, because they have a wrong tag, but could be repaired is wrong. Therefore, we must fix, migrate, and restore the images.

Policy

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Examples

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Action plan

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  • cruise Wikipedia:Files for deletion. add tags as required
  • cruise Commons:Deletion requests. migrate non free to en:wikipedia.
  • proactively search artists (less than 70 years dead) articles, looking for images. fix as necessary.
  • proactively search venerable uploaders old images. fix as necessary.
  • look at past deletions. find images, upload with proper tags

Participants

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