Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Untagged images


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the discussion was Keep and tag historical - Closing admin notes that the instructions say to "just pick one" meaning to just pick an image at random and tag it with the required tag; there is no suggestion of guessing at what tag to use - in fact the instructions state that it will be obvious. There is also no suggestion that this page was intended to, ever did, or even could, give instructions on falsifying tags. Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Untagged images
This page gives detailed instructions about how to falsify tags on images.

"Familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Image copyright tags, these are the templates you will be using. The links below contain lists of images that were untagged at the time the lists were made. Just pick one and click on the images listed. Some will have already been tagged – you can simply delete those from the list. For others, it will be obvious what tag they should get. Add the tag, save the image, and remove it from the list."

This is ridiculous! How many images are now tagged as GFDL or CC or Self-made or some other made-up BS because of this? We cannot guess about copyright or source. Either the uploader specifies or they do not. If an image is deleted because of it then the uploader probably didn't stick around long enough to get the delete notice, so it probably wasn't a valuable image anyways. But we cannot encourage people to guess! ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  02:45, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I think people could easily figure out how to fake tags without this page. Lets  drink  Tea  02:53, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag as historical: The page was started in August 2004, when people didn't use image tags. Instead they used textual descriptions like "I put this image in the public domain" or "this image is fair use". A WikiProject to tag such images was therefore quite useful. The page also has several hundred links pointing to it, and breaking those links would cause confusion. Graham 87 03:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag as historical. A quick look at the history suggests it ceased functioning as a project in about June 2006, when the work was done and new untagged images fell under the current system. MER-C 04:33, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag as historical - No point in deleting this history. Garion96 (talk) 13:57, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag as historical - per above comments. Versus22 talk 05:46, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Tag historical per all above. Stifle (talk) 20:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
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