[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

[David Gerard]

On 02/03/2008, WJhonson at aol.com <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

>  We allow fair-use images.
>  We allow them.
>  That's my position.


Well, yes, we do ...


>  Running bots to tag improperly tagged images (11,000 in two days) and then
>  asking admins to run through with meat cleavers and weed-whackers, was
>  incredibly irresponsible.  Now we have to go back, and reload many images  improperly
>  deleted because admins were given an impossible task.


Despite me repeatedly requesting you do so, you've yet to name even
one case of such, let alone many. Let alone one (or many) that were
somehow irrecoverable due to admins going through with meat cleavers
and weed-whackers.


>  I didn't bring this issue up.  It was and is a serious problem.   Some
>  corrections have been made.  I don't think however we've seen the end  of it.  And
>  the insistence that  there isn't a problem, doesn't make  it go away.


I'm still utterly unconvinced it's more than a public relations
problem with BetacommandBot's presentation, problems that Betacommand
has in fact been addressing. Because, you know, the bot really isn't
doing anything that's actually contrary to the wording *or* the spirit
of the non-free images policy.


- d.