User:Slowking4/Image Rescue Squadron

Sitrep
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. 

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
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

 * Copyrights
 * Non-free content criteria

Examples

 * here is a good faith attempt to secure copyright and upload images, deleted because copyright is doubted.
 * logo nominated for deletion with right tag, but no rationale; added rationale.
 * here was a logo uploaded to commons ready to be deleted. uploaded to en:wikipedia
 * here's a book cover uploaded to commons ready to be deleted. uploaded to en:wikipedia, subsequently deleted as "replaceable because it is likely that there is a PD version".
 * here's a statue, migrated to commons. migrate copy to en:wikipedia, put non free 3D art tag, subsequently deleted as "orphan". commons kept as "PD-US-no notice", no copyright notice
 * college logo commons deletion, move to en:wikipedia non free logo tag
 * iwo jima memorial picture, move to en:wikipedia put non-free 3D tag. subsequently deleted per NFCC "we must reduce our coverage to a single image".
 * interesting court case Korean_War_Veterans_Memorial starts Korean War memorial commons mass deletion; upload flikr image  with non free 3D art tag with rationale.
 * The Three Soldiers deletion, upload flikr image with non free 3 D art.

Action plan

 * cruise Files for deletion. add tags as required
 * cruise 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

 * Slowking4 : 7@1|x 21:42, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * SarahStierch (talk) 18:31, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Buffs (talk) 18:35, 22 August 2011 (UTC)