Matt R wrote:
--- Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I ask the question, because many pictures of many editors are taken during wikimeetups. If the pictures are labelled with a non-restricted use, that should mean that anyone can use a picture of the face of a wikipedian to do anything that he would like to. If the pictures are labelled with a restricted use and used only in non-article space, do they qualify as "speedy deletion" as my pictures did ?
I don't think so. While personally I'd prefer all images to be freely licensed, I don't think it matters that much if photos of Wikipedians and other images in User space are non-free. After all, they're not part of the encyclopedia, and the goal is to build a free encyclopedia -- the freedom of user pages is largely irrelevant.
Such images would, at least to my mind, be distinct from images that appear to be intended for the main encyclopedia, yet are not used and are unfree -- like the one you mentioned earlier.
-- Matt
Well, the image was used... here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/Contribs
it was only an orphan on the article page, as it was obviously delinked, but it was still in two of my user pages.
It was the little touch of light that accompanied the page where I listed my initial contributions. If you care looking, you will see that most of my contributions were in the field of agriculture, with a main focus on biodiversity and ecology (articles which I very largely authored) and a secondary focus on african biodiversity. So, having a little picture featuring a lonely plant courageouly trying to grow in an algerian sand dune, was originately definitly intended to be in the encyclopedia, as well as part of the images kinda defining my activity on wikipedia.
So, no, the image deleted, as well as those listed here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/PictAlgerie were pretty much meant to accompany my user page.
Now, I do not have time to write articles, but I still take some pictures; I upload them on commons (for example, here : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/Alg%C3%A9rie_2004), where no one delete them for the reason they are orphans. But when I uploaded that collection, commons did not existed unfortunately.
I have been now on wikipedia for nearly 4 years. Not so many people have been here so long and some will agree that we tend to accumulate little things... because they are part of our history on wikipedia. When I uploaded these images, they were welcome. Without tags, because we had no tags then. Later, images with no tags were deleted. Today, fair use images are still welcome, on the condition they are used in the *right* place. Tomorrow perhaps, they will be deleted. Perhaps in a year, will we also delete all free images which are orphans. Maybe in two years, we will change licence, and then delete all GFDL images because they will be said unsuitable. That sound incredible to you ? Well, for me, deletion of images which were welcome 3 years ago sounds incredible.
Maybe I just feel old :-)
Ant