[WikiEN-l] Dead wikipedians and how to really make a project boring to death

[geni]

On 7/27/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In this case, there must be some sort of special case. Purist though I
> > generally am, surely there must be some way to hang on to a few
> > pictures of deceased editors and tag them appropriately to make their
> > status clear. Considering all the copyright issues on the project, it
> > would be a happy day if this were the most pressing of them. I would
> > be loath for this to be some sort of precedent so that everyone and
> > his dog wants an excuse to be a special case, but, well, really, I am
> > OK with this particular image.
>
> Why don't we come up with a "special case" template? "This image is
> copyrighted, and cannot be used under fair use. However, the Wikipedia
> community has decided that in this special case, it is worth breaching
> the copyright anyway".
>
> Steve

Because it risks being overused.


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geni