On 12/7/05, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:02 -0500, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Well, I like "4) Stop the nonsense about deleting images simply because they aren't being used in articles." This whole process is based on a misconception about *why* relying solely on fair use is bad for Wikipedia (and these images likely fall under "fair dealing" as well as "fair use" anyway).
You are not being very clear. What do you think the misconception is?
The misconception is that it has something to do with whether or not it is legal to have these images. The truth is that we don't want to rely on fair use, because *reusers* of the content can't necessarily rely on it.
Commons is for potentially unused images, and many of the images in this category could go there. The others are under a wide variety of licenses depending on the content, but they should be no less free than the content they cover.
Why aren't these images being moved to commons instead of being deleted, then?
Anthony