Date: 2019-01-28 03:19 am (UTC)
ratcreature: grumpy (grumpy)
From: [personal profile] ratcreature
No, not really. And as a normal user you won't be able to really delete things, the text will remain in the editing history unless people with more rights actually delete things. You can't delete images either, you need special permission for that.

I eventually got them to delete artwork that wasn't even fandom art, and cropped previews in place of full art but in my experience once something is on the wiki you won't get it off unless it doxxed you with the RL name or such. Though, that was years ago and with a different OTW wiki committee, so maybe things improved since. From later conversations I gathered not everyone was thrilled with how things played out in that affair.

I mean, I was in public kerfuffle over the fanlore image policy at the time (before any of my art was uploaded). I had actually blanked my contributor page, which was the only way not to be listed as a contributor anymore (I felt I could not continue volunteering with the policy and the editing practices), and the reaction to that was, that a regular wiki fan page was created for my pseud, when nobody had bothered before, and that page actually didn't talk about the art they had grabbed either, just had the gallery there as eyecady, even for over a year at that point I had argued in public on wiki discussion pages and in the DW fanlore comm that I was against the way fanlore just grabbed fanart, and had never uploaded any of my art even if it topically fit pages I edited. (my post on this from that time)

So even though I'm fairly sure the editor who uploaded didn't mean it in a malicious way, it felt like a public power display "so you say you are against our policies? we are going to take your art regardless." And not even escalating it like crazy up to the committee and public kerfuffling (still the only time I've been prominently featured in fandomwank threads afaik), getting my posts Frozen on the fanlore DW comm, etc. amounted to much of anything. Basically if you run into the OTW's "but preservation! fair use! fannish history!" hard lines you are fucked. (Sorry for ranting, I'm still a bit sore about this all this time later.)
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