[WikiEN-l] Fair use images on user pages and enforcement

Justin Cormack justin at specialbusservice.com
Tue Jan 17 01:36:56 UTC 2006


On 16 Jan 2006, at 08:28, Interiot wrote:
> Most of them are "a list of everything I'm uploaded".  It's  
> fantastic that they've uploaded so many
> images, but it would be still better if all fair-use [[Image:...]]  
> were turned into [[:Image:...]]
> links.  Do these look like the sort of things that should be  
> changed by a bot?  Given how helpful
> these users have been, I would be more in favor of discussing it on  
> their talk pages first.

Helpful? In what way is uploading hundreds of fair use images  
helpful? Upload more than a few and its
no longer fair use its wholesale copying, and quite obviously illegal.

Justinc




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