[WikiEN-l] Uploading fair use images in SVG format

[Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia]

After dealing with fair use images on user pages, and working with SVG image 
files, I have been quietly making some unilateral additions to WP:IUP and 
WP:FUC (actually they are corollaries to already existing policies).

The additions in a nutshell: Avoid uploading fair use images in SVG format 
because SVGs are, in essence,  infinite-resolution images. They can be 
expanded to any size and still maintain the same quality high resolution.

An example of this can be found at [[Wikipedia:Preparing images for 
upload#Why you should use SVG over PNG]].

We do not want Wikipedia to become THE source for piracy, do we? 
Theoretically, a piracy thief could easily download an SVG logo like 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia-logo.svg, expanded it to 2 
meters in width, and illegally sell them as posters. But he would not be 
able to do the same thing with a PNG image like 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-logo.png since the 
resolution will become very, very distorted.

Zzyzx11 at en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11
zzyzx11 at hotmail.com

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