The abuse of fair use images is absolutely rampant on the English Wikipedia. During my tenure as an administrator, I deleted over 26000 pages, the vast majority of which were Fair Use Images.
Thousands upon thousands are deleted every month, and yet it still never seems to stem the tide of incoming images. Until uploading FU images on the English Wikipedia is forbidden, the problem will not be getting smaller.
Chad H.
On Jan 7, 2008 11:23 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/01/2008, Brian Hammer hammersoft123@gmail.com wrote:
The mission of Wikimedia is to generate "neutral educational content under a free content license". The Foundation's resolution from March 2007 states that EDP use must be minimal, within narrow limits.
The key issue that seems to be causing this problem is a misunderstanding over the definition of "minimal". It does *not* mean "small".
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