Timwi wrote:
I've just had an idea.
One of the "problems" cited for "replaceable" fair-use images is that they give the (false) impression that an image is no longer needed for the relevant article, right?
Well, maybe it would make sense to mark nonfree images in the article somehow. A red border, perhaps.
I've had the same thought, but there are lots of unreplaceable nonfree images. I'm sure the art types would be freaked out if paintings by recent artists all had red borders around them - especially for some modern works where it might not be clear whether the red border was part of the painting or not. :-)
It would however, be spiffy if an image tagged as replaceable had all its article uses marked visibly. Right now people are doing it manually.
Perhaps one could generalize, so that, say, uses of an image in articles other than the ones listed in "fairusein" would also be flagged visibly. One truly sneaky way to "mark" would be to display a blank image and/or give it a zero size, heh-heh-heh.
Stan