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

[David Gerard]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>We have this strange social culture built up around images which I
>believe is caused mostly by the fact that image deletion is instantly
>permanent, rather than being something that can be reverted.  If we
>could revert image deletions as easily (or nearly as easily) as we
>revert deletions of random bits of unacceptable text, we would be much
>better able to pick and choose images wisely.


It's also that using a given image is an all-or-nothing proposition,
whereas text is comparatively easy to rewrite.

And it's also a "my image not anyone else's" pissfight - "my
screenshot is a unique and beautiful snowflake and is much 'l33t3r
than yours!" and so forth.


- d.