Kat, would you PLEASE put something like your comments below into a nice
neat package specifically clarifying that you were not seeking to spell
out detailed new 'rules' on fair use... because the usual suspects are now
'interpreting' your original statement to mean anything from '90% of all
fair use must be deleted immediately and without discussion' to 'any
reasonable fair use rationale is now valid for all of Wikimedia'. With
resulting deletion purges, cries of 'admin abuse', et cetera breaking out
as the 'jihadists' on all sides arm themselves with this latest excuse to
treat each other badly.
* Kat Walsh wrote:
I'm afraid you may be disappointed if you are
expecting something
quite so specific; there are so many individual cases and
circumstances that it would simply be impossible to say in detail
"this kind is allowed, this kind is not" in such a way that everyone
would know. For the most part it is up to the informed and reasonable
members of the community to come to these decisions for their
projects.
(Side note, as I think from previous experience that I
need to make
this clear: this is not license to be a jerk when deleting images, and
on the flip side you do not have license to accuse someone deleting
these images of doing so to be a jerk. Treat each other with courtesy
and understanding, darn it.)