Anthony wrote:
You might be interested in trying to breathe som life back info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_for_community_images.
No, not at all. Wikipedia politics is not a game I'm good at playing.
Aren't you ashamed to be claiming that your time could be better spent doing something else? ;-)
However what I'm trying to say is that I'm uncomfortable with the idea of a handfull of users just desciding that in this one case we will simply ignore a core policy of the project because it doesn't allow them to do what they want to.
And I completely agree with this part of your argument. There shouldn't be a special exception made just for this case. If the vast majority of people agree that Wikipedia should include this image in the Wikipedia namespace, then we should be asking ourselves why, and adapting the policy to fit this situation.
Okay. At the same time we could say that it's only a handful of users who spend their time writing policies. A few others get involved becaus the proposed policy affects what they are doing at that time. Most of us would prefer to avoid the mind-fucking experience of policy writing.
Ec