On 9/22/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree completely. Last time I checked, the deletion policy is very much so biased toward keeping everything by requiring a supermajority to delete. It should be the other way around whenever a fair use claim is made.
Remember that a fair use claim would come under the Copyright policy, which being a key policy takes precedence over the deletion policy.
In short, if someone makes a fair use claim they should need a consensus to support it if anything.
Under deletion policy, the rule is "if in doubt, don't delete." The copyright policy should adopt the reverse approach. Wikipedia is known for the quality of its product. Let's not ever risk it being known as a purloiner of other people's hard work.