[WikiEN-l] Legacy non-free images (non-commercial, non-third-party use, etc)

Stan Shebs stanshebs at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 18 15:22:42 UTC 2006


Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> There are some old images (pre-2005) which were uploaded before we had
> some clear rules on free images and do not allow commercial use,
> third-party use, cannot be modified or have other restrictions.
>
> Some are replaceable, some are not. I propose that we should put a
> bot to replace those tags with "fairuse" and the images which
> are replaceable should be deleted, while the rest should be kept as
> fairuse.
>   
I'd say just announce a project to crunch on them manually where they 
are, and possibly retag, but as {{fairusein}} or whatever as 
appropriate. {{fairuse}} already makes its own cesspool of old junk, 
needs to be cleared, not added to.

Stan




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