[WikiEN-l] Re: yet another image lost for posterity
Anthere
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 28 21:57:38 UTC 2005
Sam Korn wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I think you should not play on words if you were fair.
>>
>>A year ago, fair use was authorized, with no mention if it was
>>authorized in the encyclopedic content or in the user page.
>>Amongst the two untaggued pages listed above, one was a picture of my
>>daughter and labelled as such. It was clearly not meant for encyclopedic
>>space.
>>
>>Besides, see the message just below as well :
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere/box#Image_tagging
>>
>>It says
>>
>>
>>
>>P.P.S. I hope all is well with you, and that you are enjoying your
>>labors with Angela and Jimbo. :)
>>
>>Looking here, I'd like to add that the following images need tags:
>> ▪ Image:Acacia.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Dessication.JPG
>> ▪ Image:SablePlante.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Hoggar.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Hoggar2.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Hoggar5.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Oasis.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Sahara3.JPG
>> ▪ Image:Sahara5.JPG
>>Any more tags would be a great help. Thanks!
>>--[[User:Ricky81682|Ricky81682 (talk)]] 08:11, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
>>
>>
>>
>>Does that look like an automated message ? The P.P.S. ?
>>
>>
>>
>>Look, I find the general behavior which consist in saying to an editor
>>"you are allowed to do that", then a year later, to rudely delete work
>>without warning, upon the reason it is no more allowed now to do that, a
>>bit difficult to admit.
>>
>>But I find the behavior which consist one year later to deny that what
>>was done a year before, was authorized at that time, much more difficult
>>to admit. Fair use was authorized a year ago. Period.
>
>
> I think what you are arguing is something different to quite a lot of
> others. They are saying why the policy was necessary. Your complaint
> is actually that you weren't warned. I don't think anyone would
> disagree that you should have been notified before the deletions took
> place.
>
> --
> Sam
Thanks, you are absolutely correct Sam.
Yes, what bugs me is the change of policy and no-warning.
I have no problem with adopting a much stronger policy against fair use
myself. I think it will empoverish the project, but protect it greatly,
as there has been a lot of abuse on this tag use.
Ant
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