<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 12:56, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><br><div>May 19, 2020, 13:38 by <a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr">Wikimedia Commons is a good solution because (with a few exceptions such<br><div><div>as copyright violations) the image is there forever and the URL won't change.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Images can be moved, redirects are sometimes not kept..<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did say "with few exceptions." I consider Wikimedia to be a lot more</div><div> stable than most sites at the whims of their operators. Many are savvy</div><div> enough not to arbitrarily rename or delete web pages (so they don't adversely</div><div> affect their google ranking) but images are often replaced or</div><div>deleted. Yesterday I wanted to point somebody to an image of an old</div><div>AA sign that had some historical significance (it is also part of</div><div>the story in identifying Cilrhiwiau as the pre-WWII name of Capel</div><div>Dewi) but the site operator had inexplicably removed it. My county council</div><div> are not only stupid enough to delete images, they completely deleted a whole</div><div> set of historical web pages in preparation for a multi-year process of</div><div>re-cataloguing the data. Can anyone say "301 redirect"? Not at</div><div>Ceredigion County Council. Can anyone say "Keep each existing page</div><div>until its replacement is available"? I think you can guess the answer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So my preference is for Wikimedia, which doesn't arbitrarily remove images</div><div>because they get bored with them, or marketing decides to replace them, or</div><div>the site operator goes bankrupt, or... These days I also trust Geograph for</div><div>stable (ish) images. Either or both of those could go bust, but I think there</div><div>are too many interests dependent on the Wikimedia Foundation for that</div><div>to happen.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>