Steve Block wrote:
Perhaps the way to square this is that for all images tagged with any fair use tag but fairusein, we follow the links to the articles to which it is linked and place a template on the linking articles talk page to the effect that the image should be tagged with fairusein and that an argument for such fairuse should be made on the image description page. Would there also be agreement on requiring a timelimit within which this should happen, somewhere between a week and a month perhaps?
With fair use and related tagged images which are orphan, including those not in the article space, perhaps we need to start tagging uploader talk pages notifying them that the image will be deleted if not tagged with fairusein and used within the body of an article. I can understand both sides of this argument, and it seems that this might be the best way to solve the problems posted to this list recently.
I've been on a fair-use-crunching jag for a couple days now, and I'm not actually seeing very many orphans in the generic fair use category; in general they are one-picture-one-article, with the hardest problem being to figure out if a picture is a legitimate promotional image or something stolen from a magazine or news agency.
The bigger mess I see is large piles of artwork from within games or anime - pictures of seemingly every object and character in a work, displayed in lengthy list/gallery articles. Seems like it really pushes the bounds of fair use, and yet it's hard to imagine the copyright holders ever complaining much ("what's that you say? WP is using our artwork to illustrate extended quasi-advertising articles for ''EverFinal Half-Life of Gundam Doom XXIII''? And for free? Excellent!")
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