On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:40 PM, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I personally don't think this extreme reading of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NFCC#10c is such a great idea, but it's been around for a while now.
Likewise. That page doesn't even make a link compulsory; all that's compulsory is the name of the article.
Even that requirement is relatively new.
Many older rationales don't necessarily name the article. On ones i did, for instance, I may have put 'Fair use in an article on the subject is claimed based on ...'
In this case, the image was uploaded when many believed that the {{Promotional}} template was sufficient rationale for an promotional image of something in an article about that something.
The requirement to link is really to do with refusing to accept rationales that are templated or boilerplate.
-Matt
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Which we should refuse, since the whole purpose of a rationale is to address why a specific use of a specific image in a specific article is justifiable. We should never accept nonfree images by category, only by individual case. It is unfortunate that in some cases we do de facto have categoric acceptance (CD covers, logos, etc.), but that will change in time, and requiring individualized rationales will help with that.