[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity

[Steve Block]

Anthere wrote:
> Steve Block wrote:
> 
>> Anthere wrote:
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>>> Norvy wrote:
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>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=SablePlante.JPG 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> yet another image deleted
>>>>> *without any personal warning to the uploader
>>>>> *even though it was uploaded before the tags ever existed...
>>>>>
>>>>> I find that pityful. Really pityful. Really really pityful.
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>>>> To be fair, you were asked to tag them on December 16th, 2004.
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Image_tagging
>>>> Seems like plenty of warning to me.
>>>> -- 
>>>> Norvy
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>>> see for example
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>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Unverified_images
>>>
>>> it says
>>>
>>> Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:
>>>     ▪     Image:DjeDje.jpg
>>>     ▪     Image:Dune.JPG
>>> I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you 
>>> add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if 
>>> you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} 
>>> if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this 
>>> means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and 
>>> I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, 
>>> automation script)]] 04:02, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
>>> P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. 
>>> Thanks again.
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>> To be fair, the above looks like an automated message, so it doesn't 
>> actually state that fair use tags are acceptable on user pages.
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> I think you should not play on words if you were fair.
> 
> A year ago, fair use was authorized, with no mention if it was 
> authorized in the encyclopedic content or in the user page.
> Amongst the two untaggued pages listed above, one was a picture of my 
> daughter and labelled as such. It was clearly not meant for encyclopedic 
> space.

Ah, I see what you are saying. Yes it looks like policy was changed in 
this edit, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion&oldid=23949737 
on the 24 Septembe 2005, 23:53 by Kelly Martin, who comments it is Jimbo 
approved.  There's probably an important lesson here somewhere.



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