Secretlondon and Morwen did a wonderful job trying to get an idea of the problem. I doubt whether they got a truly representative sample of images on Wikipedia, nor did they claim to, but obviously we have some that don't belong.
And Secretlondon is also doing great work to try and get permission for some of the images we have a hard time finding...
Caroline Ford wrote:
Even today I did more - I have had contact with the press offices of the two main opposition parties in the UK and they have both given wikipedia permission to use images of their leading politicians. I presume that you'd want these deleted too.
Not yet. If everything on Wikipedia is GFDL, can we make an argument that people who give permission to Wikipedia are implicitly agreeing to GFDL, because that's the only kind of use we have? I think we want to do our best to save the stuff we have some kind of permission for, before deciding that permission is worthless.
Also, we need a truce on deleting images until we have a better consensus. Any deletions need to follow our usual procedures.
--Michael Snow