[WikiEN-l] request to Jimbo for out-of-process deletion of image

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 11:08:14 UTC 2006


Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 03/04/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>> herostratus at comcast.net wrote:
>> <snip stuff about "that image">
>>
>> FWIW, Rama got a friend to take some nice montages of magazines in a
>> store - but did they go into the article? No. There is something
>> fundamentally wrong when we're willing to accept a potentially offensive
>> copyvio (which we justify under "fair use") over a neutral, Free image.
> 
> Might be worth finding the WP:POINT stick...
> 
> That said, people have a hard time accepting "replace fair use" at the
> best of times. I've been wandering through various articles where
> we're bound to have free images in the last couple of days and
> replacing the fair-use ones with free. It's surprising how many of
> these changes are reverted on sight...
> 

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