[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] Upload Flagged

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:48 -0700, Dan Gerhards wrote:
> > this upload is a jpeg. we only accept SVG files... Please remove!!
> > This upload contains material that may violate the terms of the site
> 
> Ouch! That's an angry sounding message. Did the artist see this? I can't tell. 
> It looks like an artist was trying to submit valid clip art, and didn't know 
> about the SVG requirement. They should get some message about that, but not 
> this one.

Ok, I agree...the message to them should be softer and more encouraging
to keep submitting and/or resubmit with a redirect to the guidelines
file for questions and the list.

> Can't incoming files be checked for <image> tags and raster-type extensions 
> and simply not added to the library?

Yes, this sounds like a good feature request that should be made. Would
you like to do this?

Jon

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