Tuesday, 6 November 2007, Andrew Gray wrote:
I sometimes wonder if this is an elaborate trick to put people off using non-free images, simply by making it such a hassle that it's not worth their time...
And yet I still hear people complaining that it's so much harder to upload stuff with a correct licence at Commons because they want to upload fair use images, which we don't allow.
My usual response to that is that things are actually much simpler at Commons *because* we don't allow works under fair use provisions. If you think it's easier at English Wikipedia, you probably just haven't been caught yet.