Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Pakistani boundaries
Similar reasoning for Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Indian boundaries. It is not the job of Commons to point out every single national law which may affect usage of a file. Non-copyright restriction warnings such as {{Trademark}}, {{Currency}}, and {{Personality rights}} exist because they mention usually worldwide restrictions that significantly affect commercial use, modification, redistribution, and other actions that copyright may also regulate, and non-experienced users frequently don't understand that these restrictions are separate from copyright, that affected files can be hosted here despite such restrictions, and that their presence doesn't release them from such restrictions. On the other hand, this template warns of a certain government attempting to push a particular POV on a contentious topic with legal force. The issue is not the content of the file itself but rather the idea being expressed or implied not being in line with a state narrative, which is completely different from intellectual property or counterfeiting laws that affect the content itself or the publicity rights of an individual. We are able to host such files because Wikimedia Commons is based in the United States, a nation with a strong tradition of freedom of expression. It is true that many of Commons's reusers may live in nations that lack such freedom, but it is not the job of Commons to tell them what their government wants them to say or believe, especially when such ideas are often fundamental to the legitimacy or ideology of a ruling regime. If our sites, which are among the most visited and highly-publicized on the internet, can get blocked by governments for expressing verifiable facts which they may find inconvenient, we can assume that re-users in such jurisdictions are fully aware of the legal risk of using our content to challenge a state narrative without us having to tell them. funplussmart (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- The template claims that "According to Pakistani law, it is illegal to produce maps that in the view of the Pakistani government, misrepresent Pakistani territories, such as by showing disputed territories as belonging to neighbouring countries." Can anyone confirm or deny the existence of such a law? I voted to delete {{Indian boundaries}} because no such law existed; that reasoning might or might not apply here. Omphalographer (talk) 22:34, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Delete, Commons is not responsible for end users' offenses on territorial claims, in accordance with COM:General disclaimer. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 02:08, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Deleted: per Commons:Deletion requests/Template:Indian boundaries. --Abzeronow (talk) 19:47, 23 June 2024 (UTC)