[WikiEN-l] More fair use image overreaching

[Matthew Brown]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:14 AM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>  In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:00:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, saintonge at telus.net writes:
>
>>  IIRC  some people were claiming
>>  that he should have gotten permission from the  convenient passerby who
>>  actually snapped the shot before he put the  picture online.
>
>  A good example of the kind of ridiculous behaviour that causes people to
>  leave the project, and which harms the project.  Bureaucratic adherence to  some
>  letter or worse a fixated interpretation of some policy, instead of making
>  any attempt to understand the *spirit* of what we're trying to do.

In this case, I seem to remember that it was deliberately provocative
behavior by someone with a personal dislike of the user, rather than
by some Wikipedia bureaucrat.

-Matt