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

[Chad]

Exactly.

Chad H.

On Jan 7, 2008 3:29 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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