The 'legitimate' reason for the complaint, I gather, is that the images are marked copyrighted and explicitly deny the right to redistribute outside Wikipedia. However, VfD is not the place to take this. That issue is with the copyright status of the images, not the appropriateness of the page. The page itself is about Wikipedia and is in a User: namespace, so there are no problems there whatsoever.
However, I suspect the above is only the ostensible, not the actual, reason for the listing. Given Anthony's history, he's trolling, possibly to "make a point".
-Morven
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:31:59 -0600, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
This page is a bit of information and photos from the Boston meeting of Wikipedians. It is obviously in violation of nothing. What were you thinking?
Fred
From: "Anthony DiPierro" anthonydipierro@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:41:53 -0400 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Block #1
I find this amazing.
Raul creates a page, [[User:Raul654/Boston]], in blatant violation of [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] (see #15). The page consists of a bit of text and a number of images all of which violate [[Wikipedia:Copyright]] ("If you contribute material to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the public under the GFDL"). I list the page on [[wp:VfD]], stating that it violates "Wikipedia is not a file repository", and I get blocked.
Yes, perhaps it was technically not against the rules for me to be blocked (at least not provably so). But give me a break, this is just ridiculous.
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