[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[Nathan]

Well, if they can't be bothered to submit to the process of reviewing
fair use images then that is a minor problem, we want to limit these
images anyway.

On Jan 7, 2008 3:21 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All this would do is reduce the number of images by
> > > creating more hoops to jump through - such a reduction doesn't
> > > discriminate between good and bad images.
> >
> > Sure it does. You can't add an image with a non-free license to an
> > article without approval, and non-free license content that is not
> > attached to an article is deleted automatically.
>
> The reduction I'm talking about isn't the images that get rejected,
> it's the images that people don't even try to add because they can't
> be bothered with the hassle. *That* is indiscriminate. The images that
> get rejected are going to the same images as get removed at the
> moment, it will just happen earlier, that's all.
>
>
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