[WikiEN-l] There are no pictures in Wikipedia any more

[Nick]

We've not banned anybody for contributing images to Wikipedia, be they
freely licence or copyrighted and used under our fair use provisions, and I
don't think we've blocked any users for uploading fair use material roughly
in accordance with policy (copyright, source, rationale etc). People who are
getting blocked are people who are claiming copyright on work that is not
theirs,  and we're not talking about the misguided souls who think because
they've made a screenshot, they own the copyright, we're talking about
people who continually claim ownership of stuff they're finding on the
internet in a deliberate attempt to circumvent fair use and deletion
policies.

Nick

On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/24/07, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Maybe not banning free image providers
> >> for the sake of The Bureaucracy (TM)
> >> would help.
> On 24/09/2007, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Which free image providers are banned for
> > the sake of a bureaucracy?
>
> I'm not dragging individuals into this.  But
> surely you have noticed that if someone
> breaks some bureaucratic rule (most of which
> have nothing to do with legal issues) and
> someone else draws attention to it, it doesn't
> matter how much that person has contributed
> to the encyclopaedia (images, text, good
> articles, featured articles, whatever), and the
> person gets banned?
>
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