Steve Block wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Norvy wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Sabl...
yet another image deleted *without any personal warning to the uploader *even though it was uploaded before the tags ever existed...
I find that pityful. Really pityful. Really really pityful.
To be fair, you were asked to tag them on December 16th, 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Image_tagging Seems like plenty of warning to me. -- Norvy
see for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Unverified_images
it says
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image: ▪ Image:DjeDje.jpg ▪ Image:Dune.JPG I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 04:02, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC) P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.
To be fair, the above looks like an automated message, so it doesn't actually state that fair use tags are acceptable on user pages.
I think you should not play on words if you were fair.
A year ago, fair use was authorized, with no mention if it was authorized in the encyclopedic content or in the user page. Amongst the two untaggued pages listed above, one was a picture of my daughter and labelled as such. It was clearly not meant for encyclopedic space.
Besides, see the message just below as well : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Image_tagging
It says
P.P.S. I hope all is well with you, and that you are enjoying your labors with Angela and Jimbo. :)
Looking here, I'd like to add that the following images need tags: ▪ Image:Acacia.JPG ▪ Image:Dessication.JPG ▪ Image:SablePlante.JPG ▪ Image:Hoggar.JPG ▪ Image:Hoggar2.JPG ▪ Image:Hoggar5.JPG ▪ Image:Oasis.JPG ▪ Image:Sahara3.JPG ▪ Image:Sahara5.JPG Any more tags would be a great help. Thanks! --[[User:Ricky81682|Ricky81682 (talk)]] 08:11, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
Does that look like an automated message ? The P.P.S. ?
Look, I find the general behavior which consist in saying to an editor "you are allowed to do that", then a year later, to rudely delete work without warning, upon the reason it is no more allowed now to do that, a bit difficult to admit.
But I find the behavior which consist one year later to deny that what was done a year before, was authorized at that time, much more difficult to admit. Fair use was authorized a year ago. Period.