On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/3/08, Betacommand Betacommand@gmail.com wrote:
- one of the key parts to the EDP is ensuring that the image in
question cannot be replaced with a free image. 10. it only takes one greedy lawyer to shut down the Wikimedia Foundation, lawyers are not required to send a takedown notice. they
can
just sue you for everything you have. 11. if a user wants to use non-free content they need to be able to say why they need that image on that page. if they dont have good reason then that image should be deleted.
However, if a fair use image is used in [[article A]] with a valid rationale and in [[Article B]] without one, then the image should be removed from [[article B]], not tagged for deletion. The responsibility for providing a rationale for [[Article B]] should lie with the editors of [[Article B]] more so then the original uploader or the editors of [[Article A]].
IMHO, fair use images should not be autotagged for deletion if they contain a valid rationale for one of the articles they are used in. Their use in additional articles should be reviewed by a "human" and either removed from such articles or a valid rationale added.
I believe that Betacommandbot has only been tagging images for which no valid fair use rationale is present, and ignoring "used in more articles than there are rationales" and so forth.
Those situations require human intervention to assess properly.