Examples would be useful, and I'll look into the reasons for their ban.
On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
No, no, I'm saying they get banned for nitpicky reasons completely unrelated to whatever they contribute, such as images. Your loss.
On 24/09/2007, Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com wrote:
We've not banned anybody for contributing images to Wikipedia, be they freely licence or copyrighted and used under our fair use provisions,
and I
don't think we've blocked any users for uploading fair use material
roughly
in accordance with policy (copyright, source, rationale etc). People who
are
getting blocked are people who are claiming copyright on work that is
not
theirs, and we're not talking about the misguided souls who think
because
they've made a screenshot, they own the copyright, we're talking about people who continually claim ownership of stuff they're finding on the internet in a deliberate attempt to circumvent fair use and deletion policies.
Nick
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