[WikiEN-l] Questionable fair use claims: a case study

Justin Cormack justin at specialbusservice.com
Thu Oct 20 22:56:58 UTC 2005


On 20 Oct 2005, at 20:35, uninvited at nerstrand.net wrote:

> Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>
>> This is the kind of situation where you might want to throw around
>> some of your personal authority; there are a lot of editors not
>> getting the message (or not wishing to accept it)
>>
>
> I have a collection of howls of protest on my talk page placed  
> there by
> people who are upset that I deleted an image they uploaded.
>
> People just don't get it.

Thats true. I tried that too.

I think we should transwiki all non free images to nonfree.wikimedia.org
remove upload rights to there, only allow new images to commons,  and
er make a free encyclopaedia...

Justinc




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