On 5/21/06, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/21/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Not really. For some reason fair use deletion
are pretty
controversial and I doubt very much whether we'd delete many of them
if we relied on straw polls. So we have a speedy for them because,
basically, there are a lot of people on Wikipedia who are willing to
pack a straw poll but not willing to do the thinking necessary to make
a reasonable decision.
I may be naive, but I think it is going over the top to generalise
straw polls as unreasonable just because they come up with different
decisions to what you expect.
I do everything I can to keep image copyright-related questions away
from anything resembling an open poll, because such polls frequently
generate a result that contravenes copyright law, Wikipedia site
policy, or both.
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Mark
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