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

[Stan Shebs]

Justin Cormack wrote:

>
> 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.

For postage stamps alone, there are about 200 modern countries, and
one would want at least five recent (still under copyright by their
postal admins) stamps just to illustrate basic facts, so there's
a thousand unavoidable fair-use images right there. The world is a
big place...

Stan