On 11/29/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Personal file server ?
You seem to be saying that the images were not used in articles for
quite some time, were labeled as being used without a license (fair
use), but because they were images personally important to you, they
should be kept on Wikipedia servers forever. To me, that sounds like a
"personal file server" -- a place to keep images for yourself, with no
substantive relation to the Wikipedia project.
Again, maybe you may not really realised, but when I
uploaded these
images, Commons did not existed. So, it was perfectly understandable
that an editor with a bunch of images that could be useful for the
encyclopedia would upload them where it was possible to upload them.
The images in question, I thought, were tagged as "fair use". Which
would not be allowed on Commons anyway. Nobody is deleting PD images
which are unused, to my knowledge. The entire discussion is about the
deletion of images labeled as "fair use" which are unused. If that's
*not* what you are talking about then I suppose I (and others) have
been confused about what you are complaining about from the beginning.
Maybe there is a language barrier here, because I'm not quite following you.
FF