Optim wrote:
I am against the use of "fair use" images and other material.
Whenever I use Wikipedia I want to be sure that I can redistribute and modify any content I find in it under the terms of GFDL.
So a ban on fair use material seems reasonable and desired to me.
Perhaps we could divide the English Wikipedia in an "American Wikipedia" and an "International Wikipedia" (or "Pure GFDL Wikipedia") where the American edition would allow fair use material and the International edition would be just a copy (done automatically by software) without fair use material (software should have a checkbox "Fair use" in the Upload function so the copy routine would just copy all content not marked as "Fair use").
I have no problem with fair use images, so for me banning them entirely would be unreasonable. There are just too many variables. Tagging strikes me as more sensible, with a wide variety of possible tags. The user could then decide on his own level of risk tolerance rather than having that decided by a handful of do-gooders who think they know the law.
Ec