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

[Nick]

Examples would be useful, and I'll look into the reasons for their ban.

On 24/09/2007, Armed Blowfish <diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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