Talk:Raton, New Mexico

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[edit] I strongly disagree with deletion of the PHOTOS section on this page.

One of the admins just deleted an entire section from this page. I consider this an act of unthinking vandalism. I believe the admin involved, Nytteend (sp?) may not have intended this act on his or her part to be vandalism ... however, that person's stated logic / reason for their act of deletion is, in my opinion, sheer "out of touch with reality" nonsense. Stated reason for deletion of the list of INTERNAL LINKS TO PHOTOS WHICH WERE LEGALLY AND PROPERLY STORED ON WIKIPEDIA -- "Wikipedia is not a photo hosting site". (Huh!? Double-huh?) This seems to me to be saying that grass is not green; even if it is. It makes no sense; given the facts. I looked up the section on "What Wikipedia is not" ... and I saw no reference to that idea, at all. In fact, I found much to support just the opposite assertion. Questions: If Wikipedia is not in fact a photo hosting site, then why are they hosting photos? Why are they actively asking for people to upload photos or other images -- so long as they own / control the legal rights to them -- to the Creative Commons area ... on Wikipedia's servers? Why are they then nicely asking for permission to have those photos used, under whatever license the copyright holder decides to grant them, by other people, across the globe? Why then did Wikipedia's programmers go to the trouble to write code that would read and interpret short coded text messages, which simply say "Image" and then has a colon after it -- and then the name of a photo, stored on Wikipedia's servers? No external URL was referenced in any of the links the admin deleted ... so how then could this be a case of anything BUT Wikipedia hosting photos? Why did Wikipedia's programmers go to all of the trouble involved with uploading, storing, accessing, even thumb-nailing images that people like me, who owned the copyrights to them, took the time and trouble to upload ... if "Wikipedia isn't a photo hosting site"? All the verifiable facts lead in a single direction: that photo section had no business being deleted; admin or not! Personally, if the admin in question doesn't do the right thing, and revert their mistake, I'll have to file it away under ignorance, envy and/or jealousy! (Take a good look at the several artistically-composed, quality photographs of natural beauty that I had uploaded to the Creative Commons area, last night, and then tell me those unique photos of this local area don't belong?!) I hope the admin in question does more research, and figures out they are doing harm in this case. Censorship is not allowed on Wikipedia ... and what else could deletion of the links to internal portions of Wikipedia be? Why accept photos, but refuse to show them? Wardster321 (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)