{"id":11,"date":"2007-04-22T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/22\/cleaning-up-your-crap\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T10:53:12","slug":"cleaning-up-your-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/22\/cleaning-up-your-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up your crap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/OTRS\">OTRS<\/a> <s>future burnouts<\/s> habitu&eacute;s frequently declare that <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-April\/068943.html\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-March\/067251.html\">sky<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-March\/067269.html\">is<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-April\/069372.html\">falling<\/a>, particularly with regard to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WP:BLP\">biographies of living people<\/a> &mdash; they see nothing but the complaints. (The actual problem is likely <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-April\/069598.html\">not nearly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.wikimedia.org\/pipermail\/wikien-l\/2007-April\/069665.html\">as bad<\/a>, though it still needs urgent attention.) To help, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Messedrocker\">Messedrocker<\/a> has compiled a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Messedrocker\/Unreferenced_BLPs\">ill-referenced living bios<\/a> &mdash; you are heartily invited to dive in, reference or gut and cross another name off the list. (The list is in order of article creation &mdash; start at the end.) Then you can make a smug post with the title &#8220;Sourced, bitch.&#8221; and the content being just a list of diffs. Or just wreak havoc on a string of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WP:AFD\">deserving deletables<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing lots of admin stuff this weekend. As a staunch defender of the value of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">fair use<\/a> &mdash; to discuss something, quoting images is as necessary as quoting text &mdash; I&#8217;ve been having lots of fun lately going the hack on abuse of the excuse in contravention of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Non-free_content\">policy<\/a> and indeed copyright. The kids want their candy, and it&#8217;s my job and pleasure to take it away from them. And, don&#8217;t forget: you can replace any fair-use picture of a living person on English Wikipedia with <tt><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Image:Replace%20this%20image1.svg&#038;redirect=no\">Image:Replace this image1.svg<\/a><\/tt> and it&#8217;ll turn into a direct invitation to upload a genuine <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomdefined.org\/\">free content<\/a> image they actually own themselves.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve also just unpacked twenty years&#8217; photos and have been scanning and uploading my own <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Image:1989-01-02_Kim_Salmon_at_home_3.jpg\">replacement free images<\/a>. If I can, you can.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTRS future burnouts habitu&eacute;s frequently declare that the sky is falling, particularly with regard to biographies of living people &mdash; they see nothing but the complaints. (The actual problem is likely not nearly as bad, though it still needs urgent attention.) To help, Messedrocker has compiled a list of ill-referenced living bios &mdash; you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/22\/cleaning-up-your-crap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cleaning up your crap.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}