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

[Armed Blowfish]

No, no, I'm saying they get banned for nitpicky reasons
completely unrelated to whatever they contribute, such as
images.  Your loss.

On 24/09/2007, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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