[WikiEN-l] Common sense exceptions to our copyright policy.

[maru dubshinki]

On 8/1/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > While I like that we're debating ways to encourage more
> > copyright-compliant uploads, I'm not sure about this particular idea.
> > Right now, when I happen across an article with a red link for an image,
> > I know to remove it and/or look for a substitute. Do we want to make
> > people wonder whether they should wait around in case there's an upload
> > forthcoming?
>
> That bring around another question... Why do we consider redlinks for
> non yet created articles benificial while we conisder redlinks for not
> yet created illustrations to be a problem that must be fixed? :)

Because image names are the next best thing to arbitary, redirects
don't work AFAIK, and arbitary image names don't canonicalize to a
discrete and clear subject, unlike article names which generally do
(and we have disambiguation pages for the ones which don't).

~maru