[WikiEN-l] Image contribution embarassment

[John]

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Delirium wrote:
> Kat Walsh wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>> People here might be interested in my post at
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#Image_submission_embarassment
>>>     
>> After reading his post I'm disappointed to see this also; I think this
>> consequence wasn't in the minds of the people supporting this
>> proposal. Since I do take a hardline position on image copyright
>> issues, I'd also like it to be easy for us to get free images from
>> people who aren't our regular user base and who do already find it
>> difficult to contribute media.
>>   
> If I read correctly, Commons was excluded from the effect of the change 
> (or at least the comments in the vote on Meta seemed to indicate that). 
> If so, since most new free-licensed images (as opposed to fair-use ones) 
> should go to Commons anyway, could we just change the instructions for 
> new-user uploads to point them to the Commons account-creation and 
> upload pages?
> 
> -Mark
> 
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That would make sense.

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