On 3 Apr 2006, at 12:06, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 03/04/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
herostratus@comcast.net wrote: <snip stuff about "that image">
FWIW, Rama got a friend to take some nice montages of magazines in a store - but did they go into the article? No. There is something fundamentally wrong when we're willing to accept a potentially offensive copyvio (which we justify under "fair use") over a neutral, Free image.
Might be worth finding the WP:POINT stick...
That said, people have a hard time accepting "replace fair use" at the best of times. I've been wandering through various articles where we're bound to have free images in the last couple of days and replacing the fair-use ones with free. It's surprising how many of these changes are reverted on sight...
Thats because "fair use" and non free content are corrupting wikipedia. People do not understand we are supposed to be making a free encyclopaedia any more, because there is so much non free content in it. They think we are trying to make a really good encyclopaedia.
Quite understandable alas. We need to go back to making a free encyclopaedia which means deleting tens or hundreds of thousands of non free images.
Its just wasting our time, and causing a huge distraction from the purpose of wikipedia.
Justinc