Steve Block wrote:
Anthere wrote:
A year ago, fair use was authorized, with no mention if it was authorized in the encyclopedic content or in the user page. Amongst the two untaggued pages listed above, one was a picture of my daughter and labelled as such. It was clearly not meant for encyclopedic space.
Ah, I see what you are saying. Yes it looks like policy was changed in this edit, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_dele... on the 24 Septembe 2005, 23:53 by Kelly Martin, who comments it is Jimbo approved. There's probably an important lesson here somewhere.
That page has been edited nearly 100 times since. It's tagged as official policy, but it's difficult to consider a page as representing policy when its text is so unstable. Since checking the background of each paragraph in a policy page would be unreasonable everything on the page is in doubt.
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