On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:36 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The messages could be more helpful (e.g. naming this week's favoured template for the obvious keeps). But that's a detail on what is excellent and much-needed work.
What bugs me is that the people doing this work seem to care very little for the very common case that older fair-use images simply don't use whatever templates / jump through whatever hoops "policy" was re-written to require last week. That allied with the fact that many older images were contributed by people no longer with the project is a problem.
I don't know how prevalent this is, but although I regularly check my talk page, I have long lost any motivation to jump through more hoops when it comes to old images. My position is: if it's worth keeping, someone will save it; if it's not, it's not a huge loss. Fair use rationales are not very useful anyway when they are practically all boilerplate these days.
Johnleemk