i have spent perhaps more time than advisable to establish a paper trail for the events which resulted in unilateral censorship of all images of stalin across english wikipedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abzeronow#c-Lcdrovers-20260512162100-you_have_closed_a_discussion_with_critical_open_questions_remaining._the_policy
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i did a great job and i'm very proud of myself for completely avoiding the desire to castigate the individual user and their sockpuppet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Portrait_photographs_of_Joseph_Stalin#c-Howardcorn33-20260301215500-Files_in_Category:Portrait_photographs_of_Joseph_Stalin_2
because in fact, the problem here is not that they tried, but that they succeeded, and currently remain successful
Your exercise of deletion authority at all given the clearly extant discussion invalidating the basis of its claim, seems to indicate either that I have grievously misunderstood Wikipedia deletion policies, or that it was a mistake, by way of reverting that mistake. I can ensure the political hair table is addressed.
i avoided the term "neglect" from a previous iteration. i also avoided "escalation". sooooo proud of self
but this final part was my best work of all:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Portrait_photographs_of_Joseph_Stalin#c-Howardcorn33-20260301215500-Files_in_Category:Portrait_photographs_of_Joseph_Stalin_2
Separately, the nomination thread appears to demonstrate misuse, or even potential "weaponization" of the policies and resources wikipedia provides regarding copyright claims to images. Setting aside the specific behavior of anyone in the thread, copyright law is well-known for its history of misuse to quell freedom of expression. It seems inarguable to me that this nomination thread demonstrates that editors (I include myself) and admins need help to navigate and evaluate such claims—in particular, the relevant legal determination was not clear.
that's a lengthy way of saying "the rules lawyers had rules to point to, but there's no explanation that wikipedia provides to protect against what actively remains a censorship operation achieved through concern trolling
the only reason i invested in this enough to identify clear problems was because someone on the internet infodumped the US definition of a "publisher" in a way that rang clear as a bell
i definitely do not like the admin whose online identity appears to valorize their deletion services, and who almost got away with it (and is currently still getting away with it)
one thing at a time. i am nothing at all alike to the image of hot stalin, banished from wikipedia before may day. i will be taking a shower
i don't really know enough to have any opinions about stalin except that images of politicians as children are very frequently used to humanize them. and if the US calls someone else a "mass murderer", that's actually pretty different from calling them a communist. i suppose calling joseph stalin a communist wouldn't make sense though, because the term mccarthy used so repeatedly (he may have had a slightly falling or rising tone to it) began as a questioning of sorts, as reading the room.
i haven't heard mccarthy's voice and i don't want to. i know what fascists sound like.
irish americans were so known, not quite for "comedy", but for minstrelsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show
By 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national artform
this is unencyclopedic, and possibly added by a racist, but i wouldn't consider it dubious
During the 1830s and 1840s at the height of its popularity, it was at the epicenter of the American music industry.
this feels more encyclopedic
i wanted to ask "was hitler a sort of minstrel", but the wikipedia page on hitler is not written to answer that kind of question:
He expressed loyalty only to Germany,
i will come back to place a "dubious" marker later perhaps and see if this ignites internal strife amongst hitlerite factions
He gave him a copy of his pamphlet My Political Awakening, which contained antisemitic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-Marxist ideas.
i know that's bait. not the funny kind
Hitler designed the party's banner of a swastika in a white circle on a red background.[101]
that is encyclopedic! i was fully unaware of this! art can be used for evil—oh man i bet there's a whole genre of guy who does logos like this. i was gonna mention the slack logo and wow!
i once told someone that i hated that shit "cause it looks like a bank" — he made a face that i was unable to parse. i can't believe i was right
in particular, note how the pinwheel effect (it spins when you open the app) could shift the "pinwheel" squircles each 90° leftward. this would result in the pinwheel squircles trailing behind the + arms, either "like a blow up tube guy" or yeah a swastika
i feel like people should really mention that hitler designed the swastika more often. i feel like there is more than one type of guy who learned this long ago which now dimly alight
ok well my take on that is that's what fucking happens when we don't get lucky in our dice rolls against the fascists. we get adolf hitler
