On 21/04/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
I'm completely stunned by this thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_notice... Looking at the whole situation I'm not too concerned about Martinp23's block, which would have been reasonable if the information leading to it had been true (but it wasn't). The anonymous User:84.211.71.5 was not running a bot and was not removing legitimately "fair use" images either. The images he was removing failed the first fair use criterion "no free image could serve the same purpose" and thus were copyvios, mostly pictures of Japanese pop musicians.
I doubt "and thus were copyvios", but certainly not within policy.
That we have users who are clueless or apathetic about copyright is not a nothing new, I realize, but it concerns me how many of them are administrators.
There are plenty who aren't.
I'm a big fan of fair use and will staunchly defend it as appropriate. Which seems to mean I spend far too much time cleaning up blatant abuse of it as a bad excuse ...
I've been advised to stop commenting at WP:AN/I lest I be labeled a troll, but I would like some idea of how to address a community that handles image policy issues like this so poorly. And what can be done about this fork of Template:Promophoto? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:HelloProject-Photo If you read the fine print you'll see it implies that WP:NFCC#1 is being waived for J-Pop, which can't possibly be true... I think.
I've edited the template accordingly.
- d.