Matt R wrote:
--- Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I ask the question, because many pictures of many
editors are taken
during wikimeetups. If the pictures are labelled with a non-restricted
use, that should mean that anyone can use a picture of the face of a
wikipedian to do anything that he would like to. If the pictures are
labelled with a restricted use and used only in non-article space, do
they qualify as "speedy deletion" as my pictures did ?
I don't think so. While personally I'd prefer all images to be freely licensed,
I don't think it matters that much if photos of Wikipedians and other images in
User space are non-free. After all, they're not part of the encyclopedia, and
the goal is to build a free encyclopedia -- the freedom of user pages is
largely irrelevant.
Such images would, at least to my mind, be distinct from images that appear to
be intended for the main encyclopedia, yet are not used and are unfree -- like
the one you mentioned earlier.
-- Matt
Well, the image was used... here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/Contribs
it was only an orphan on the article page, as it was obviously delinked,
but it was still in two of my user pages.
It was the little touch of light that accompanied the page where I
listed my initial contributions. If you care looking, you will see that
most of my contributions were in the field of agriculture, with a main
focus on biodiversity and ecology (articles which I very largely
authored) and a secondary focus on african biodiversity.
So, having a little picture featuring a lonely plant courageouly trying
to grow in an algerian sand dune, was originately definitly intended to
be in the encyclopedia, as well as part of the images kinda defining my
activity on wikipedia.
So, no, the image deleted, as well as those listed here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/PictAlgerie were pretty much
meant to accompany my user page.
Now, I do not have time to write articles, but I still take some
pictures; I upload them on commons (for example, here :
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/Algérie_2004), where no
one delete them for the reason they are orphans. But when I uploaded
that collection, commons did not existed unfortunately.
I have been now on wikipedia for nearly 4 years. Not so many people have
been here so long and some will agree that we tend to accumulate little
things... because they are part of our history on wikipedia. When I
uploaded these images, they were welcome. Without tags, because we had
no tags then. Later, images with no tags were deleted. Today, fair use
images are still welcome, on the condition they are used in the *right*
place. Tomorrow perhaps, they will be deleted. Perhaps in a year, will
we also delete all free images which are orphans. Maybe in two years, we
will change licence, and then delete all GFDL images because they will
be said unsuitable. That sound incredible to you ? Well, for me,
deletion of images which were welcome 3 years ago sounds incredible.
Maybe I just feel old :-)
Ant