On 10/20/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
It's really quite simple. If safari jackets are still in existence, it would be easy enough for a Wikipedian to find or make a free image, meaning fair use is unneccesary. Clarify when fair use is permitted on the upload page and urge people to read the instructions carefully. When we're giving clear instructions on what is and isn't allowed we can simply delete images that fail to abide by the rules.
I think this is an important distinction to make. I don't know that I agree that the use of this image isn't fair use. It probably is. But for the purposes of Wikipedia just being fair use isn't enough. We should only be relying on fair use where finding or making our own image is nearly impossible. The term fair use is not very well understood by the vast majority of Wikipedians, and it's important that we make the correct arguments. For instance, I don't think we should be saying that we're removing a "fair use image", there's no such thing as a "fair use image". Rather, we're removing a "non-free image", and the reason we're removing it is that 1) it's not licensed to everyone under a free license, and 2) it can be replaced by a free image with a reasonable amount of work.
--Mgm
Anthony