Nice to know that, I guess it's fine with me.
I've noticed that the upload page claims something like "If not
indicate a license and information source appropriate, your file will
be deleted without notice. Thank you for your understanding."
I think it should also say something like "Warning - uploading
copyrighted images would lead you to get banned from Commons"...
Yuval
On Nov 4, 2007 4:02 AM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/11/2007, Yuval Y <yuval.y.il(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I've checked in the English, Hebrew, French
and other Wikipedias, and
found out you can upload fair use images, or at least, I haven't found
and DIRECT link to the Commons.
What do you suggest, should we block all the users just because they
can't upload images directly to the Wikipedia?
Endearing though the image is, it's not some weird Commons power-grab :-)
The reason you can't have fair-use images on eswiki is because that
community *explicitly decided* not to accept fair-use material, and as
a side-effect of that later chose to move all their images to commons
and disable local uploads. (I believe the other project of comparable
size to do this is the Portugese Wikipedia.)
Letting you upload material to eswiki wouldn't get by the fact that
the eswiki community has agreed not to have fair-use material, and so
it would still get deleted.
"The Spanish Wikipedia only accepts free images, and has rejected fair
use since 2004, after a public vote. In 2006, it was decided to phase
out the use of local image uploads and to exclusively use Wikimedia
Commons for images and other media in the future." - the enwiki
article on eswiki.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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