Board Thread:Policies/@comment-24800939-20160420135146/@comment-10473115-20160501003007

This discussion is becoming even more confusing but I'll try one more time.

First of all, drop those irrational fears about the bot run. A bot don't do anything we haven't decided. It's a responsibility of its operator to make sure that a bot does what's agreed upon. If a bot can't be programmed to that, it shouldn't be started and for technical side of things, bot can tell a difference between namespaces (in AWB:List, Filter...) Of course bot operators can make mistakes but we are working on wiki environment so we just undo unwanted edits. We all have undelete button, right? Now for synopsis of our discussion: We have agreed to delete fan art galleries from main namespace. There hasn't been any highlighted announcement because Annabell and Copeinator have asked to give users time to change categories of images or "protect" images. Copeinator has proposed more detailed workflow (one month delete tagged, one month before deleting unused images) which nobody has commented on. I don't see a reason to wait but haven't commented on it because I don't oppose it either. Change of categorizing of fan art images from Fan Art Images to User Images was originally proposed by me as an alternative to deleting all fan art which few editors have proposed. Because they have disappeared from this discussion, I have also withdrawn that proposal. However, Copeinator and Annabell are still talking like we would delete category Fan Art Images. That's why I haven't been able to make an announcement of policy change which still demands to mark fan art to image template. If you can make an announcement about that policy change, please do. I don't have any objections to waiting times or categorization. But if you think that fan art should be in category User Images, please edit the policy also.

We have not agreed to delete fan art images. As I mentioned earlier, few editors suggested it but when fan art images were defended, they haven't responded. As it's possible that I've misunderstood them and they actually meant also just deleting galleries, we should disregard those posts for now. If someone wants to propose deletion of all fan art images, it should be done on an another thread, because this one has become too cluttered and uncertain. Also we haven't decided anything about deletion of unused images, we have a separate discussion for that.

Do you think that my synopsis on our discussion is correct?

Artful: I have disregarded your posts from my synopsis because I couldn't fitted them in. That first post had some great insights about licensing and copyrights and I really hope that everyone pays an attention to them. But you seem to think that we have already decided to delete all fan art from the site which isn't the case. Annabell and I have both opposed banning and deleting of all fan art based on this thread. I'm personally for banning it but with caveats I have told before and believing it should be done on a dedicated and highlighted thread. What really confuses me is that both Annabell and Copeinator have responded to your post and didn't seem to found anything contradictory.

I hope that we'll reset this discussion to this post and you would comment first was my synopsis correct. I have no strong opinions about the matter besides removing fan art from content namespaces. I have tried to act as a neutral mediator for this discussion, but as you can see, failed miserably. Maybe we should ask an outside help from admin notify thread or if you have already reached a consensus which I just can see, tell me. For me it seems that you're not making any sense or have I just lost my mind.