Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Files uploaded in cooperation with blocked accounts

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Files in Category:Files uploaded in cooperation with blocked accounts

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As Kalliope (WMF) has threatened to block administrator accounts that are seen to "assist" Russavia (Russavia specifically, as these circumstances and interpretation of WMF policies only apply to his case), this is reasonably interpreted as a threat to office lock the accounts of any Wikimedia Commons contributor who appears to assist Russavia in any way. The files must be deleted and may then reinstated by a Commons administrator, who then takes personal responsibility for the undeleted files, rather than me. This will leave me free to continue to work with the undeleted files. Note that the WMF threat is phrased in a way that makes undeletion an issue rather than reupload. If a literal reupload is a requirement by the WMF, then we may need to find a way of preserving the image pages texts, with their unique categorization and descriptions, and the upload URI source, then mass reuploading as clean uploads with all possible reference to Russavia's work wiped from history. This will lose improvements to the files such as the cropping of credit bars and removal of watermarks, and as some files will no longer be available on the given link, they are likely to remain lost to the project.

Though later comments by Kalliope on COM:AN/U have qualified this to be interpreted as for "post-ban" actions that may be interpreted as assisting Russavia, this leaves me personally with a serious issue of how I can apply "housekeeping" actions by Faebot in maintaining my own uploads, where in the past I have worked collegiately with Russavia, and may still receive requests from Russavia or those he has worked with to release educational collections of photographs. In the case of the Airliners batch upload project, Russavia worked directly with photographers to secure the releases, most of which are documented as OTRS records. Further improvements to categorization, identification and the use of the custom template have been working collegiately with Russavia to the benefit of Wikimedia content, up until the point of the threat by Kalliope to block anyone that may be perceived by the WMF to assist Russavia. As there is no possibility of appeal, nor any right to challenge evidence for such a block, all Commons contributors should take steps to protect themselves from becoming suspects.

This is a test case of 70,168 photographs currently marked in Category:Files uploaded in cooperation with blocked accounts, the results of this DR I would apply to other batch uploads where Russavia has been part of the team in various ways. This selection does not represent all photographs from the Airliners project, just those where I was the mass uploader, so it may be a sensible precaution to take the same action with files in the project uploaded by other users.

Refer to diff: "This is why it is the un-deletion of such content that can be seen as assisting the banned user in evading their ban and thus have repercussions, rather than its re-uploading by a contributor who is not banned and assumes responsibility for the upload."

The following list is a sample of the first 100 files in the category:

Fæ (talk) 11:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep: What is more disruptive? The block evasion by Russavia (and previous actions that the WMF diskliked), or the attemp of the WMF to disrupt Commons by trying to get rid thousand of good contributions (including the Picture of the Year 2014), just because them was uploaded by a banned user? As I know, Blocked/banned user has never been a valid reason to delete files if them are in scope. Therefore, the files should not be part the asisting banned users issue as well as the users who dealing with these files, because the files belongs to the Community. --Amitie 10g (talk) 17:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
PD: I already read the whole thread at the COM:ANU, and I still keeping my  Keep comment. This is one of the most ridiculous and shameful thing that I seen in my life in the Wikimedia Community, and we should not accept the interest of the WMF if them contradicts the interest of the Community. --Amitie 10g (talk) 20:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Keep Why do we need to delete them? Because they were uploaded by a banned user? Isn't Commons' mission is to provide a free media repository for everyone? If the WMF will just delete these, then they will just destroy Commons' mission. And if they will delete these, I will demand them to restore them and give a public apology to our community. My question to the WMF is: Do you even cared about us? --★ Poké95 00:51, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: Strong consensus to keep. --Riley Huntley (talk) 09:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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