[Foundation-l] Is there a good reason to delete the Burj Al Arab?

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:25:32 +0100, "Hans A. Rosbach"
<hans.a.rosbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 March 2011 18:55, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> 
>>
>> > Given that the only Wikipedia in existence is the English Wikipedia,
>> that
>> > is.
>> >
>> > Hans Rosbach
>> >
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean by this statement. Could you please
explain?
>>
>> The English Wikipedia has a fair use policy, I know of no other
Wikipedia
> that has one. The statement "We can claim fair use when using images
like
> that on
> Wikipedia" is correct for English Wikipedia, but not for the other
> Wikipedias. For all those that use Commons for all pictures, the FOP
policy
> has to be the same as on Commons. The upside of that is that all content
is
> reusable for users, including images. The downside is obviously that
> non-FOP
> areas have limits on availability of images.
> 
> The downside of the fair use policy on English Wikipedia is that the
> incentive to donate free images is little. The most visible Wikipedia
> already have pictures, asking for free images for Wikipedia thus gets
> harder. Solidarity from the English Wikipedia would in the short term
mean
> less illustrations in the most visible page on the search results, but I
> believe in the long term it would lead to more donations of free images.
>