Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20161109233932/@comment-1738746-20161112104931

Dessamator wrote: Bluesonic1 wrote: And to further clarify the point that no local admin uploaded the unlawful image,  these are the logs No local admin ever uploaded this image to my wiki, it was always uploaded through wikia's bots. Wrong. Perhaps you should read the ToU, and ask instead of making assumptions. Originally files were uploaded using the promote tool, and once they were vetted by staff and did not breach the ToU, they were then "promoted", the bot also named the images and put them on the wiki. The logs aren't the gospel or single source of truth because they are regularly hidden when they contain some breach of the ToU, and staff can do some things server side that don't show up on the logs.

Staff don't have to necessarily check every media  for copyright violations when they periodically randomly review them, unless these are blatantly obvious. If anything the user / admin who uploaded the image might have allegedly violated the copyright laws and breached the ToU by doing so. That link you gave me doesn't explain anything about the Special:Promote feature. Ironic that you tell me not to make assumptions when that's what you've done to me :/ I've made no assumptions here, simply worked on the facts that I have. I was still in hospital during the time this promote tool was being used- I didn't fully start returning to the wiki until the end of the year that WikiaBot uploaded that image. Considering I have no experience with the tool, all I have to go on was that WikiaBot uploaded the image via those logs. And again, WikiaBot's description says "Auto-generated"- that doesn't tell me that a local admin had to have uploaded it. The other evidences I had toward the image and even description being done by a bot or just pulled by someone outside of our fandom was because the second image to appear on Google Images when searching our wiki fandom's name back then was this image that was used- the first being one already found on a different (unrelated) wiki. This was coupled with the fact that our wiki's description was just a copy-paste of the fandom's website's home page- it didn't actually say anything wiki related.

Considering the lack of community we had then, I get the feeling that our wiki's details were auto-generated because no local admin submitted anything, and it needed to be done. I say this because we also had images at the time that could have been submitted, it doesn't make sense that a local admin would submit a random one like that considering this. I understand your point about staff not being able to check everything- I was never arguing this. What I want to highlight to staff is that even when unlawful use was brought to their attention, they were happy to allow it to remain unlawfully on the wiki. It's one thing not to check, but completely different if a user reports it with links to the original artwork and everything, and they ignore this.