[WikiEN-l] Why are images deleted in such a hurry?

[David Gerard]

On 04/03/2008, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM, cohesion <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:

>  > This one was deleted because it claimed to be fair use, but didn't link
>  >  to any article. That may seem extreme, but when we are dealing with
>  >  thousands of images the work really has to rely on the uploader.

> Linking to the article has only recently been required.  Imposing new
>  rules and then expecting someone who uploaded an image 2 years ago to
>  still be on the site to make that change is rather ludicrous.


Expecting images to fit the new rules, however, isn't.

Surely someone is keeping a general eye on the tagged images, then?


- d.