On 03/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Remembering that many of these images were loaded at a time *prior* to the current convention and language, by people who aren't in-wiki any longer. Which only makes the problem that much more difficult to measure.
I'm not so sure that's a reasonable objection either. We used to allow "with permission for use on Wikipedia" images (User:Secretlondon worked quite hard to get lots of permissions), and now we just don't allow that as a reason to keep an image. (As I noted before, some images are both with permission and an assertion of fair use in case that permission is ever withdrawn or for third-party reusers to assert.) The rules can change - the image rules on en:wp are now tighter, and I can only see them getting tighter still - and so old non-free images are going to fall afoul of the criteria.
- d.