On 11 Sep 2007 at 13:29:21 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
And I didn't note that "case by case" is actually required for justifying fair use. If the "abuse" is removing a nonfree image, I generally find myself almost entirely unable to manifest two hoots.
It can be kind of frustrating, though, to try to get what one feels is justified fair use images into the encyclopedia in the face of the strong ideological opposition from those who want a totally purist site in the area of copyright license. The purists won in many language Wikipedias, such as German, but couldn't get such an outright victory in English, so they took the next best step for them of continually tossing up hoops for image uploaders to jump through. Since I uploaded quite a few top-level-domain registry logos in the course of populating the infoboxes for TLDs (I created the TLD infobox and spent about two years gradually getting them in place in all the TLDs, including the 200-plus country code domains), and did most of this uploading in the more cavalier days when image licensing wasn't as vigorously policed as it is now, I'm faced now with a steady stream of ominous talk-page notices posted by bots threatening to remove this or that image unless I jump through whichever hoop they're tossing now, like providing a source or a rationale or a haiku.