On 4/25/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I don't see why civility needs to be limited to community members, however that term may be defined.
Social issues only kick in with community members.
Not so.
Firstly, many people are potential community members or indeed simply fairly new community members.
Secondly, the way we treat good-faith contributors who are not regulars impacts our reputation in the wider world.
Thirdly, the way we treat non-regulars impacts the way we behave towards everyone.
Actually, in most cases, informing the uploader and tagging the image for seven-day deletion is normal practice. This is normally done in a semi-automated fashion with notification templates and is not a great imposition, even if you don't have automated tools to speed this up.
Who said anything about deletion? Plently of "fair use" images used in more than one article.
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dual_wield&diff=prev&oldid...