On 19 May 2006, at 21:08, Stan Shebs wrote:
company logos are fairly harmless, except where they are being used as decoration, when we can get rid of them.
I agree that a few of the historic images are worth keeping, the ones which have articles.
How is this consistent with your initial declaration that "it will all be gone in a few years"? Either fair use is sometimes acceptable or never acceptable - even one fair use image, no matter how much it is "worth keeping", makes en: non-free.
And of course if you admit the principle that some nonfree images are allowable, you've reduced it to a matter of personal opinion as to whether any class of nonfree image is worth including. Every class of image now accepted has a number of respected editors who support including that class.
Personally I believe we should make a free encyclopaedia, and get rid of all of them. I dont think this will quite happen for a few years. We will get rid of the vast majority however. Expect the Jimbo decree this year.
Justinc