Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-Old-70
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Duplicate of {{PD-old}}. GeorgHH 18:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
(I removed the delete-tag from the template because the images which using it are listed for deletion, too) --GeorgHH (talk) 20:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Please use {{Template deletion request}} for deletion requests for templates. --ALE! ¿…? 15:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- At the time I created it, this was A VERY COMMON PD group on en.wp, and I was contemplating, and still am pushing for (via emails to Jimbo, programmers, etc.) an automated facility to tag images on en.wp with a trigger template signifying they satisfied the needs here. It seemed silly to have a PD threshold tag there that was in need of a compensentory edit here. Since 70 years after the death of the author/owner is a critical factor in US law for copyrights, it is a good tagging label.
My suggestion here, is to take and just redirect the tag (#REDIRECT [[Template:PD-old]]) which would maintain the categories of PD-old and inherit them across both template names. If in fact we eventually do get some labor-saving automation into Transfering qualifying images from en.wp (or any) to the Commons,...
- We're talking about files on the same machines (servers) in the same buildings some of the time!!! Why have a human lurk and slow things down!!! Vett the change, yes. That's where the trigger template comes in... applied by someone familar with both category schemes, as is the case with ongoing 'preparation' to move qualifying files here. But the actual transfer is an administrative entry in the two database records, and and need not involve actual bit transfers at all.
- ... If that concept gets a fair wind, then the redirect of tagging will be necessary (and sensible) for many such equivilent tags. Hence the proper software infrastructure is a Template redirect... which is totally hidden and transparent to the user. At some point, a BOT could be used in the what links here page of the redirecting template to go and fix all the occurances up to the preferred name.
- In sum, keep it as a redirected version for compatibility with cross-transfers (uploads) from en.wp image files ready to be moved here, were it not so time consuming. There are hundreds ready and vetted already, after all. // FrankB 13:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Redirected -- Bryan (talk to me) 10:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC)