On 03/03/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Remembering that many of these images were loaded at
a time *prior* to the
current convention and language, by people who aren't in-wiki any longer.
Which only makes the problem that much more difficult to measure.
I'm not so sure that's a reasonable objection either. We used to allow
"with permission for use on Wikipedia" images (User:Secretlondon
worked quite hard to get lots of permissions), and now we just don't
allow that as a reason to keep an image. (As I noted before, some
images are both with permission and an assertion of fair use in case
that permission is ever withdrawn or for third-party reusers to
assert.) The rules can change - the image rules on en:wp are now
tighter, and I can only see them getting tighter still - and so old
non-free images are going to fall afoul of the criteria.
- d.