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Commons:Requests for comment/scope

‎A thought experiment: this probably isn't the answer you were looking for,,,
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Taking the experiment even further, what if I were to upload a hundred more distinct random samples? Or a thousand? Or a million? Is there any point at which the images are no longer "realistically useful for an educational purpose"? If so, what is this point, and how do you know when you've arrived at it? Can you formulate some sort of test which would apply in the general case—that is, not just to images of random data, but to images on any other topic which is generally considered to be in-scope on Wikimedia projects? —[[User:Psychonaut|Psychonaut]] ([[User talk:Psychonaut|talk]]) 09:55, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Taking the experiment even further, what if I were to upload a hundred more distinct random samples? Or a thousand? Or a million? Is there any point at which the images are no longer "realistically useful for an educational purpose"? If so, what is this point, and how do you know when you've arrived at it? Can you formulate some sort of test which would apply in the general case—that is, not just to images of random data, but to images on any other topic which is generally considered to be in-scope on Wikimedia projects? —[[User:Psychonaut|Psychonaut]] ([[User talk:Psychonaut|talk]]) 09:55, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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:I would answer it this way: all of the images are in scope no matter how many millions there are. They would be deleted for reasons of redundancy ([[Commons:Deletion_policy|2.3.5 not 2.2]]). To try and take a real-world example: a category for a very widely photographed building has shots of the whole structure from almost every angle you can take a photo from. If there is a mediocre-quality shot then it is less useful, if it's terrible then it's in danger of getting chucked. If someone treks into the middle of the jungle and takes a rubbish photo of an ancient temple, but they're the only person to do it, then the photo is safe because it's the only one we have. See also: rare vs common species categories. In-scope media is regularly deleted for other reasons --[[User:Moogsi|moogsi]] ([[User talk:Moogsi|blah]]) 11:51, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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