I can put nonsense into the custom license field in UploadWizard, my upload still succeeds. Only uploads with a valid license template should be allowed.
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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/158589
Apparently I decided this wasn't a big deal, and @Gilles agreed. Is this something that Commons really needs?
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I don't do that kind of cleanup often, so I can't speak to how big of a problem it is, but clearly — all else being equal — it would be better not to leave that kind of issue to get cleaned up manually.
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Upload Wizard seems to allow creation of 2 types of files without a license templates:
- some of them are tagged with {{Remove this line and insert a license instead|year=2015|month=08|day=05}} template and are placed in subcategories of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_uploaded_without_a_license
- others like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_da_FeNEA.png do not have any license or problem tag
We have about 50 files in the second category per week. They are detected by [[User:YiFeiBot]] and placed in [[Category:Media without a license: needs history check]] where they have to be processed by volunteers. I am one of the people that keeps this queue clean and it would be a great help if:
- Upload wizard warn people if they are just about to upload an image without a license since often lack of license is due a typo in the license template name
- If someone decides to upload despite of the warning than we should add {{Remove this line and insert a license instead}} template
It is easy to test if file has a license template or not since all license templates transclude {{License template tag}} template. If that template is missing than file does not have a license.