On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:18:03AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:

It looks like SecretLondon is the one who put most of these up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:PAphoto

"This image is courtesy of PA Photos Ltd ( http://www.papicselect.com/ ). It is copyrighted, and not to be supplied to third parties. See Wikipedia:Pictures from PA Photos Ltd for details."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=...

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These are from a vareity of contributors...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Noncommercial

"This image is not licenced under the GFDL. It is under a non-commercial-use only licence."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=...

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Some of the above might be usable under "fair use", but I think we should be very cautious about fair use.

"fair use" does not match your policy of "maximal useability". There is no "fair use" in large parts of the world, and even in the US certain uses completely OK with the GFDL would not allow the use of fair use images bundled with Wikipedia.

secretlondon's images have the same status fair use images have: - OK to use by the wikipedia. - everyone else has to check whether he may use them or not.

I can't see why fair use should be OK but secretlondon's photos are said to be evil. In contrast to thousands of images, these photos at least cite their sources, many others don't.

I'm asking for: * deletion of all "fair use" images * deletion of all copyrighted images * deletion of all images with unknown sources

Best regards,

JeLuF