[WikiEN-l] Getting rid of bad fair use (was:Zero information...)

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

  I think, in terms of where we are at with getting rid of things tagged "fair
use" spuriously, that the following diff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABradPatrick&diff=53000894&oldid=52777859

...really says a lot.

               Jkelly


Quoting Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com>:

> On 5/17/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> > or a "culture of image tagging"
> > that has become fairly effective at searching out and destroying
> > bad uploads.
>
> I wish.  We're managing to keep the worst of the worst out, but that
> basically means images where the uploader can't be bothered to find
> source information, or where nobody's gotten around to sticking a
> "fair use" tag on it.  The new CSD criteria will help a little with
> the worst abuses of the {{fairuse}} and {{fairusein}} tags, but
> there's still no effective way of getting rid of things like the mess
> at [[Category:Fair use magazine covers]].
>
> --
> Mark
> [[User:Carnildo]]
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