On 7/12/07, WikipediaEditor Durin wikidurin@gmail.com wrote:
Bottom line here; the Foundation has mandated that we come into compliance by Spring of '08. I'm telling you this is flat our impossible under the current situation where little in the way of clear demarcation has been given.
The obvious strategy would be to start with the most obvious violations. But even for those, our only means (as non-admins) of dealing with such images, even the ones whose "fair use" wouldn't be defensible in a million years (after which copyright will have hopefully expired, mind you) -- even for a copyrighted picture of a common household object -- is to put the little red and white dated tags on there and hope it actually stays there for seven consecutive days (or whatever the common-law requirement is, which has no basis in policy).
It could be argued that we need a swifter formal deletion process, one that isn't functionally identical to WP:PROD, or it could be argued that people who actually have a working knowledge of image use policy should be both technically able and morally empowered to delete obvious violations on sight.
—C.W.